polyester

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Recent Examples of polyester Get a cap and gown for a cool photo op No graduation day is complete without a photo shoot in a tasseled cap and hot, sweaty, polyester robe, right? Lindsey Vickers, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2020 Start with polyester thermal underwear for the base layer. Deb Acord, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for polyester 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyester
Adjective
  • But Betancourt’s classmates found his take prudish and unsophisticated.
    Jake Nevins, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The accelerating expansion of China’s nuclear arsenal suggests that its leaders have recently decided that its historically small and unsophisticated capabilities were insufficient for Beijing’s needs and ambitions.
    Abraham M. Denmark, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2021
Adjective
  • The spokesman, Carlos Hernández, said the bodies of 36 men and 15 women had been sent to a provincial morgue set up for the accident.
    Reuters, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The plane, which was contracted by the U.S. Department of Defense, crashed in a rice field about half a mile from a cluster of farmhouses, according to Windy Beaty, a provincial disaster mitigation officer.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The black metal bed has a minimalist design that complements rustic and industrial interiors.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Oakland has a new seafood-centric bistro that performs a lovely balancing act between rustic and refined, Sirene.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For such an inelegant behavior to be in chatbots as widespread and popular as GPT is a blunt reminder of two larger, seemingly contrary phenomena.
    Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The result has been a competition that has felt, at times, unwieldy and inelegant and exhausting.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • McCarthy gives a great performance, playing up the press secretary’s more boorish traits as a gum-guzzling loudmouth that mangles words and twists facts like pretzels.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike their boorish, booing counterparts in Philadelphia, Chiefs fans are known for their hospitality and actually welcome opposing fans to join their barbecuing paradise at Sunday tailgates.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Frances Quinlan Quinlan had planned to celebrate her 34th birthday in a backwoods cabin this week, before a Friday show in Ohio.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2020
  • The potholes are worth it, however, for the great weekend of backwoods hiking and exploring .
    Stef Schrader, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2020
Adjective
  • Redheads often fielded comments related to having a hot temper, being clownish, weirdness, Irishness, not capable of being in the sun, being wild (among women), wimpy (among men), and intellectually superior.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • As vice-president, Kamala Harris was generally regarded as unimpressive and slightly clownish, with her banal repetitions and too-frequent outbursts of too-exuberant laughter.
    Avi Nelson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • While crude oil was the largest import for Alabama in 2023, automobile and automobile parts followed right behind.
    Jennifer Lindahl, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The Midstream segment provides crude oil and refined petroleum product transportation, terminaling and processing services, as well as natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) transportation, storage, fractionation, gathering, processing and marketing service.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2025

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“Polyester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyester. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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