as in tricorn
a hard covering that is worn to protect your head
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Recent Examples of helmet
The deputies noticed that the suspects were wearing turnout gear, helmets and radios with Cal Fire t-shirts under the gear, authorities said.
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Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
Barkley thought the game was over, slapping his helmet on the way to the end zone.
—Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2025
But underneath his helmet and now a headset, Vrabel is who he’s always been: a winner.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2025
The Bucs receiver responded by hitting Lattimore hard enough to separate him from his helmet.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
Barkley thought the game was over, slapping his helmet on the way to the end zone.
—Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2025
But underneath his helmet and now a headset, Vrabel is who he’s always been: a winner.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2025
The Bucs receiver responded by hitting Lattimore hard enough to separate him from his helmet.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helmet
Noun
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Cena also goes under the hood with country singer Jelly Roll in Nashville, and while a passenger in Jelly’s RAM 1500 Laramie learns about his journey from being a convict to fatherhood and stardom.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Jan. 2025
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Sleek long lines, lithe limbs, hood buckled all the way to the top: every bit an extraterrestrial monarch.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
15 Jan. 2025
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Splashed across his chocolate brown skullcap was the Arc’teryx logo, large and neon yellow.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 2025
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The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Hair Density Serum $23 at Amazon The leave-in formula targets to support the scalp with the nutrients and ingredients like larch wood, Chinese skullcap, and wheat kernel extracts to help grow thicker hair and promote fullness.—
Christina Shepherd McGuire,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2025
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Silk is also better for your beauty rest and the reason why silk scarves, bonnets, and pillowcases are so popular.—
Nena Farrell,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
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Editors’ Picks Her followers sent her around $800 to help purchase leave-in conditioner, moisturizing shampoo, bonnets, edge gel and wide-tooth combs.—
Callie Holtermann,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Then armed men in black turbans, as if to justify their fear, opened fire into the crowd.—
Jazzmin Jiwa,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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Young people copied her contemporary African fashion sense, wearing a turban with a formal suit or painting tribal dots on her face as part of her makeup.—
Lynsey Chutel,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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The name comes from the distinctive head gear used, which are of course, green berets.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA TODAY,
2 Jan. 2025
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Tara Lipinski's Daughter Georgie Is 'Reunited' with Mom's Skating Partner Johnny Weir: 'Just the Cutest' On the stroll around the streets of Paris, Georgia exchanged her baby pink beret for a baby pink hair bow headband.—
Emma Aerin Becker,
Peoplemag,
9 Aug. 2024
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But then, Keller made his own discovery: Someone else claimed to have found the New Orleans casque.—
Chelsea Brasted,
NOLA.com,
9 Apr. 2018
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Native people in Borneo have carved hornbill casques into ornaments for at least 2,000 years.—
National Geographic,
National Geographic,
16 Mar. 2016
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Cooper is seen wearing a red Texas Tech hat, while Luis Medina (Emilio Rivera) is wearing a Dallas Cowboys shirt.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Jan. 2025
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Underwear has been fashioned into a hat stretched over its forelock.—
Mary Logan Bikoff,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Big blue sombrero Monday, November 25, 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise — and reveals clumps of dust in a mottled outer ring.—
Space.com Staff,
Space.com,
1 Jan. 2025
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By the 1990s, the chain boasted over 200 locations, serving up chimichangas and celebratory sombreros to families across parts of America.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Helmet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helmet. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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