semi

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of semi My 28-year-old son was killed by a semi in a hit-and-run. Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024 The semi entered the median and overturned, causing a small fire to start. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024 Two northbound lanes on I-465, just north of the I-70 interchange on Indianapolis' east side, remained closed through Sunday morning after a driver rammed into the back of a parked semi, ISP Sgt. Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2024 The semi drove off, apparently unaware it had been hit. Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for semi 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for semi
Noun
  • The unit is located on the lower level of a duplex with access to a private backyard that sits beside a quiet creek.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Her body was found days later near a vacant duplex.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • He’s eased himself into a director’s chair in the sunny living room of a ranch house on his rural weekend property in California’s Ventura County, a working lemon farm that’s also home to some 20 horses with names like Sir Heinrich VH.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Taschen left the reimagining of the ranch house entirely in the hands of Pardo, with no preconceived conceptual directive and no prescribed program beyond the utilitarian.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In an elegant town house on the street, Bashar al-Assad’s father-in-law, Fawaz Akhras, has a cardiology practice.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The historic four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom town house still stands today and was recently listed for $1.8 million.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • During a collapse, ranch members would come here to survey for threats.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The reality series about the lives of young staff members working at the Circle Bar Dude ranch in Montana debuted to 130,000 total viewers on Sept. 23, and averaged 160K over three airings —representing just 35% retention of Superman & Lois‘ audience.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • There are scores of rustic bungalows and mod villas dotting the fringes of each country’s sugar-white sands.
    Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Allen, who is sixty-five, had decided to ride out the storm in his house, a one-story bungalow in the Palma Ceia neighborhood, with green-and-white-striped awnings over the front windows, and a large American flag waving above the front steps.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The 71-acre Napa County estate includes a tennis court, casita, two rentable two-bedroom cottages, and an infinity pool overlooking the 15.39-acre cabernet sauvignon vineyard.
    The Week Staff, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Two structures are situated on the nearly 32-acre estate: a five-bedroom, nine-bathroom English country-style main house dating back to 1938 and a three-bedroom, two-bathroom guest cottage.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • That year-to-date output, which includes condos and townhomes, is 27% higher than the same period in 2023, a year in which builders ultimately got permits to build around 8,000 homes.
    Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Local communities must encourage building condos and townhomes as a pathway to success for California’s next generation.
    Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024

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“Semi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semi. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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