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as in counter
a leg-mounted piece of furniture with a broad flat top designed for the serving of food we sat at the kitchen table, playing cards for hours on end

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as in plateau
a broad flat area of elevated land the area between the two canyons forms one broad table

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Recent Examples of table
Noun
Lara and prior commissioners have not always made such referrals, choosing instead to negotiate directly with the insurer privately — sometimes with intervenors like Consumer Watchdog also at the table. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025 Liverpool is now 15 points clear at the top of the table with just nine games left to play and would need a catastrophic turn of form to not secure its first league title since 2020 and second in the last 35 years. Ben Church, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
Still, Ipswich will be delighted to sign a player a side one point above them had tabled a bid for in July. Elias Burke, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 The original expansion plan, proposed in December and later tabled, included the construction of new buildings in the northwest section of Slade Park, along with a soccer pitch and four pickleball courts in the southwest area, which would have affected two multipurpose fields. Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for table
Recent Examples of Synonyms for table
Noun
  • Arakawa’s body was found on the bathroom floor, beside a counter with pills scattered about, while the 95-year-old Hackman was found collapsed on the floor of another room in the house.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • While Hackman was found in the home's entryway, Arakawa was discovered in the bathroom, where prescription pills were scattered on the counter.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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  • Picture an individual without permanent housing who can now use this AI service to arrange meal pick-ups at a car wash and find affordable medication.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • At least from a human-health point of view, that’s arguably the worst meal a mosquito could pick: Birds are some of the best hosts and multipliers of disease.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
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  • The sixth report on homeless mortality by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health described the current trend as a plateau.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The landing site near a plateau known as Mons Mouton is even further south than Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander reached more than a year ago, according to the company.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
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  • Check below for the full list of winners (in bold).
    Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The 97th Academy Awards are taking place tonight and soon the entire 2025 Oscars winners list will be unveiled.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2025
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  • In addition, some state bills, such as legislation in Pennsylvania and Tennessee, focused on the use of the vaccine in livestock and food production.
    Stephanie Armour | KFF Health News, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • For tickets, or to learn more about the 25th annual wine and food festival taking place in Seattle March 13-17, visit Taste Washington.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Pushing out the 12 million to 14 million immigrants tabulated by the U.S. government, or the 35 million asserted by Marco Rubio and others, will take years.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Raymond Babbitt wouldn’t be able to tabulate the number of lawsuits Roy would bring.
    Greg Marotta, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
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  • There were some disagreements on the cut of the film, and The Weinstein Co. basically shelved it.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
  • And special days call for special grids, such as this set of six toughies that were originally shelved but have remained in our hearts.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
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  • One of the county board of commissioners’ goals is to build more attainable housing, Interim Appraiser Endicott noted during her presentation.
    Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
  • LeBlanc is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle.
    Lauren LeBlanc, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Table.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/table. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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