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as in to squash
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Granny Annie was in a wheelchair, her long white hair matted at the back, her eyes wet above a blue paper mask.
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Saba Sams,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2026
There are also three group fitness rooms and a set schedule of classes, from yoga to mat Pilates.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
Some of the upcoming workshops and meetings include photography hiking, matting and mounting photographs and tips on how to enter photography contests.
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Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
Rake The Leaves A thick layer of leaves will mat down and block sunlight from reaching your lawn.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
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Saba Sams,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2026
There are also three group fitness rooms and a set schedule of classes, from yoga to mat Pilates.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
Some of the upcoming workshops and meetings include photography hiking, matting and mounting photographs and tips on how to enter photography contests.
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Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
Rake The Leaves A thick layer of leaves will mat down and block sunlight from reaching your lawn.
—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mat
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Theaters in London’s West End will dim their lights Wednesday evening in tribute to her.
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White light ranges from a warm 2700K through to a cool 6500K with dimming from 1% to 100%, while RGBIC technology allows multiple colours to appear across the light simultaneously for more dynamic scenes during gaming, movie nights or parties.
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In one montage played for laughs, an emperor is squashed by a panda and a king is beheaded, although there is no blood or guts to speak of.
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Luckily, this deal squashes that qualm by knocking over $300 from the sticker shocker!
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Like a true pal, a big pot of it in my refrigerator lightens my load, providing a nourishing meal my whole family loves at a moment’s notice.
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Jupiter enters your 6th House of Work and Health, encouraging kinder routines that improve well-being and lighten daily tasks.
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Hakimi shoved Laryea to the ground and then Laryea pushed him and a minor scuffle ensued.
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The calming locales both complement and contradict the plot’s revelations, which are hardly bombshells but do speak to how well-to-do families labor to shove inconvenient skeletons into the closet.
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In a process known as photobleaching, the UV light breaks down the chemical bonds in pigments, which can brighten your whites.
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The light that shone from Red Beard’s joints brightened.
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For example, adding things like brick powder to spices, or white powders to milk, to bulk them up.
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His steals total was a bit misleading, and Kansas coach Bill Self will need to bulk him up and teach him more consistent defensive habits.
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There are songs for each segment, which include Goofy cleaning up, a dark turn with Daisy in a power outage and snowed-in Pluto.
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The food is rustic and cosmopolitan at once — bright, monumental salads, whole carrots and leeks baptized by fire, skeins of pasta, and Parmigiano snowing down — but the secret is the seeming effortlessness.
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In May, a minibus rammed into a bus parked along a motorway in northwest Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring five others.
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In May, a frightened horse rammed into another carriage, causing the vehicle to flip over, injuring the driver.
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“Mat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mat. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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