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dimpled

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verb

past tense of dimple

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Recent Examples of dimpled
Adjective
The trail takes visitors along Rottenwood Creek where, at this time of year, thousands of dimpled trout lilies (Erythronium umbilicatum) create bright yellow carpets on the hillsides and stream banks. Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026 According to common depictions of his family’s dynamic, Mamdani inherited his leftist political ideology from his father, the anti-colonialist Columbia professor, and his dimpled charm and flair for the theatrical from his filmmaker mother. Rebecca Traister, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026 The hill sits off a dirt road and takes a bit of trudging up before the dimpled geodes start appearing in earnest. Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025 The fabrics utilize the same aerodynamic principles as a golf ball, whose dimpled surface causes a ball to fly further by using turbulence to reduce drag. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2025 Her legacy shines through in every quip and dimpled smile, a reminder of a star who owned every room. Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimpled
Adjective
  • Another option is the Kiwanis Trail that threads its way through a shallow, cupped canyon.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Leaves can appear cupped or pinched when there is an insect infestation present.
    Molly Burford, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • From her office at Aish, a Jewish educational institute with headquarters next to the Western Wall plaza, Geller can see where shrapnel dented and smashed rooftops, roads and a parking lot in the area.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Two dented blue bottles of Cuajo Titanium, a liquid coagulating enzyme used to curdle milk, remained on a wooden table, caked in mud.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The planters are pockmarked and rough-cut; etched and grooved to mimic oyster reefs and mangrove roots.
    Nathan Rott, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Ecologist Greta Wengert stared down the pockmarked hillside at a pile of pesticide sprayers left behind, long after the raid.
    Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Not only is this location remote and hard to reach, but curled rattlesnakes and tarantulas lurk in nooks.
    Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Her hair was curled into subtle Old Hollywood waves by Rena Calhoun using products from Hair Rituel by Sisley Paris and tools from Mane.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • His suite in the World Trade Center is cavernous, with a view that sweeps from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Statue of Liberty.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The cheers from that snowy day under the cavernous tent testified that an ownership culture can work wonders.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • By now, the mind-altering powers coiled in these devices are evident.
    Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Overnight, the smoke coiled upward and gave way to acid rain that stained the city black.
    Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The cause was a rare and aggressive cancer of the soft tissue, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, according to the organizers of an online funding appeal.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma is more common in children but can occur in adults, according to the American Cancer Society, and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma typically affects all age groups equally.
    Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • But the social psychologists who catapulted to prominence in the early two-thousands were less interested in the richer concept of eudaemonia and more interested in a thinner, hollower, and vastly more individualistic enterprise of happiness, of simply feeling good.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • These nanoframes, which are nanoscale metal structures with hollow, frame-like geometries, are of significant interest because of their unique ability to concentrate and manipulate light at very small scales.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026

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“Dimpled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimpled. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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