riser

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Recent Examples of riser So an early riser can get right to preparing and eating breakfast while their partner sleeps in. New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025 Oklahoma State riser Brennan Presley set the 2025 preseason water mark for receiving yards last weekend with 102. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025 Turner has been the fastest riser. Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025 Iton, a training camp standout and depth chart riser, injured his hip in Saturday’s preseason win over the Vikings. Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for riser
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Noun
  • It was found that CFAP91 acts as a scaffold, a key component for assembling the radial spoke 3 (RS3) complex in the flagellum.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • These could be made into such things as scaffolds for tissue engineering, or used to stem bleeding or to absorb oil spills.
    Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fast forward 12 months, and half of that rotation is gone, sacrificed at the altar of the second-apron overlords.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The altar was accessed, oddly, by eleven stairs.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The pulpit dates back to 1609 and was originally in the church in Tórshavn.
    Katherine LaGrave, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Included is a set of pipes at the front of the sanctuary, behind the pulpit, called the Chancel Swell, which is used when the organ is played for smaller gatherings.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Riser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riser. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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