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Recent Examples of shingle
Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 2 Mar. 2025
About 1 in 3 adults will have shingles at some point in their lives, and Acharya said that 10% to 20% of those cases will involve shingles of the eye.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Built in the 1950s, the wood shingled house was more of a summer cottage than a year-round residence.
—Stacie Stukin, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
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Noun
As if Oscars night wasn’t crazy enough, Harrison Ford has shingles.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 2 Mar. 2025
About 1 in 3 adults will have shingles at some point in their lives, and Acharya said that 10% to 20% of those cases will involve shingles of the eye.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Built in the 1950s, the wood shingled house was more of a summer cottage than a year-round residence.
—Stacie Stukin, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
Noun
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The vines are planted in limestone, marl, and clay soils and are situated with eastern and southeastern exposures at altitudes of 750 to 1,000 feet so grapes mature perfectly with the right balance of sugars, acid, and minerality.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2025
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While Vigna La Delizia enjoys south-east exposure and has soils rich in calcareous marl and clay, Vigna La Villa faces due east and features silt, sand, and clay soils.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The star graced the cover of WWD with her hair in an asymmetrical bob and razor sharp cuts at her bangs.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the one surviving photograph of her from this time, Evangelina is young and put together, wearing earrings and a string of pearls, her curly hair parted in a stylish bob.—
Laura Gómez,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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With a kind of theater vérité, Cromer fills the monochromatic bunker of a set with a large — the cast numbers 21 — and mostly male ensemble, all bustling about with myriad tasks amid overlapping dialogue and banter.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2025
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While most people associate the onset of dementia in the elderly with Alzheimer's, there are a number of distinct dementia diagnoses, often with risk factors and underlying biology that only partly overlap.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
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The mood is a mix of ironic and sincere in equal measure, with plenty of pastiche and a heavy appreciation for the profundity of cultural detritus.—
Savannah Sobrevilla,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Previous scientific research shows that the detritus left behind after a fire can be laden with toxic compounds and gases, from heavy metals to burned plastics to asbestos.—
Alejandra Borunda,
NPR,
19 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Split into northern and southern hemispheres, the celestial sphere containing the planets is overlaid with constellations and rotates to display the stars as viewed from Earth.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2025
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Drop feels even more claustrophobic when Landon overlays Violet’s messages onto the screen.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Search and rescue teams were at the scene on Friday using heavy military equipment and excavators to remove silt from the body of water where the vehicle was found on Wednesday.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2025
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In the communities along the Gunpowder River, from Joppatowne and Rumsey Island as well as down past Harewood and Oliver Beach in Baltimore County, the clays and silts continue to foul the waters.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Surrounded by a crop of listeners clearly comprised of mostly longtime fans, Lenae got to bask in the chords of her current breakthrough hit just before midnight struck in one of NYC’s most iconic venues.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
3 Apr. 2025
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On the fall 2025 runways, designers put forward a fresh new crop of big statement belts that felt decidedly more refined.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
2 Apr. 2025
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This suggests the amphibians perished in calm waters and were gently buried by layers of fine sediment over time.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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These materials trap sediment, absorb heavy metals, and remove fertilizers, waste, and pollutants before the water is released into the canals and, eventually, Biscayne Bay.—
Courtney Heath,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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