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Recent Examples of air-dry
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
For care, the brand recommends hand-washing or using a gentle machine cycle with cold water and a mild detergent, then hanging or laying flat to air-dry.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Adjective
If possible, air-dry pillowcases rather than tumble drying.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
For care, the brand recommends hand-washing or using a gentle machine cycle with cold water and a mild detergent, then hanging or laying flat to air-dry.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
Be sure to air-dry the topper before making your bed.
—Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air-dry
Adjective
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Allowing linens the opportunity to air dry will increase their longevity and stop them from getting musty.—
Clint Davis,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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Add half the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until combined.—
Angelica Stabile,
Fox News,
23 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Scoring allows the bread to properly expand during baking.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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That means an all-screen front, now employing an OLED panel, with Face ID baked into the camera notch.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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These evaporate easily into the air, where they can be inhaled, trigger allergic reactions, and irritate the eyes, nose, and throat.—
Matt Fuchs,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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Its roughly $2 billion economy remains heavily reliant on oil and gas revenue, which is evaporating quickly, and more than 40 percent of its people are estimated to live in poverty.—
Sui-Lee Wee,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
Verb
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This method results in a large percentage of the water in the grapes to be lost, resulting in these dehydrated berries shriveling, often to the size of raisins.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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This will be a short and sharp promotion run: After a few days, the flower’s structure will shrivel and collapse.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.—
Tribune Content Agency,
oregonlive,
27 Nov. 2022
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Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.—
Camille Fine,
USA TODAY,
22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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Among them, there are structures built from adobe in the arid climate of New Mexico, dwellings carved into cliffs in Colorado, churches that have been around for centuries in Puerto Rico, and a New England property that’s the oldest house with a timber frame.—
Amelia Mularz,
Architectural Digest,
26 Feb. 2025
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His rugged features quickly appear not to reflect the arid expanse of Western Australia’s Pilbara region, home to the core operations of his $38 billion Fortescue iron-ore business.—
Justin Worland,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
6 Dec. 2023
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Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.—
Brad Leithauser,
WSJ,
10 Nov. 2023
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“Air-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air-dry. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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