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Recent Examples of air-dry
Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
If possible, air-dry pillowcases rather than tumble drying.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
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
Allow it to air-dry and repeat until the stain is gone.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
If possible, air-dry pillowcases rather than tumble drying.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
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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In the Gaslamp, Rustic Root is offering Maryland crab cake Benedict, a 28-day dry aged ribeye and chocolate bread pudding from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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But Lawson looked off the pace in qualifying in Melbourne for the season opener, starting 18th before crashing out in the race as Red Bull gambled to leave him out on dry tyres when rain arrived.—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Khan-Ghany is now retired from teaching and spends her days baking and sewing with her granddaughter.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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This ritual is meant to cleanse the home of chametz (food and drink containing yeast or baking powder) to remind Jews of the flat loaves the ancient Jews baked in the sun for their hasty escape.—
Holly Rizzuto Palker,
Parents,
27 Mar. 2025
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But virtually all those gains have evaporated amid investor worries about the protests, lagging sales in the U.S., Europe and China, and Musk spending time overseeing DOGE.—
Michael Liedtke,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2025
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But virtually all those gains have evaporated amid investor worries about the Tesla backlash, lagging sales in the U.S., Europe and China, and Musk spending time overseeing DOGE.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The home run rate shriveled to 0.6 per nine innings, a third of his career numbers coming into the season.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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That count morphed to more than 300 million monthly users by 2016, but had shriveled to 36 million in 2023, Microsoft said.—
Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 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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Perhaps you’re drawn to the dry, arid climate and year-round sunshine of the American Southwest, but you’re not sold on the exact location.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Mar. 2025
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Discussions on ceasefire falter again 59 minutes ago by COMPILED BY DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Mar. 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 Apr. 2025.
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