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Recent Examples of column
Summer vegetable soup, egg sandwiches, and more recipe recs from our Dear Bon Appétit column.
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Emma Laperruque,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 June 2026
This column first addressed an employee’s duty of loyalty nine years ago, almost to the day.
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Dan Eaton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 June 2026
Today’s column is going to focus on some of the Best Stocks in the Market that weren’t able to hold on.
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Josh Brown,sean Russo,
CNBC,
29 June 2026
Originally open to the elements, the frescoes were exposed to wind, rain, sun, and snow until the early nineteenth century, when windows were installed between the corridor’s columns.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
29 June 2026
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Emma Laperruque,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 June 2026
This column first addressed an employee’s duty of loyalty nine years ago, almost to the day.
—
Dan Eaton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 June 2026
Today’s column is going to focus on some of the Best Stocks in the Market that weren’t able to hold on.
—
Josh Brown,sean Russo,
CNBC,
29 June 2026
Originally open to the elements, the frescoes were exposed to wind, rain, sun, and snow until the early nineteenth century, when windows were installed between the corridor’s columns.
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
29 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for column
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More than 120 people got sick in a norovirus outbreak aboard a Princess Cruises ship, marking the cruise line’s third this year.
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Cage’s score is an abstract work based on the Japanese form of collective poetry known as renga, in which each poet attempts to write a line that is as distant as possible in meaning from the preceding line.
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Even now, its fins and pilasters adorn plenty of new construction, and in real-estate-speak, the phrase is code for high class.
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And then this pilaster rising up.
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The drone attacks are worsening fuel shortages, with people reporting rising prices and long queues at the filling stations.
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This, Nunes argues, allows a small, paying slice of the population to jump the queue for police attention.
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The only way to preserve our republic is to strengthen the pillars of our present with the mortar of our past.
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These clips, showing first-person views from drones striking military and logistical sites, have become a pillar of Ukraine’s wartime propaganda efforts to illustrate battlefield successes against Russia.
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Fans have been seen performing the row on an escalator in Boston.
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Inside, more than 120 humanoids stand in neat rows, each performing a specific task repeatedly, from sorting packages or changing diapers to scooping popcorn, guided by human trainers with handheld controllers next to them.
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Previous versions of the FDA’s panel on drug compounding — the group that will meet next month — have voted against a string of peptide ingredients brought forward by compounding pharmacies, declaring all of them too risky to be offered to patients.
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Doyle allegedly pocketed most of the proceeds while feeding Matthiesen a string of false explanations about why payment had never arrived.
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The clue is in the number of file boxes the court staff bring out.
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That figure arrives as enterprises move from chatbots into agents, copilots and browser automations with access to email, code, payments and file shares.
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“Column.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/column. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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