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Recent Examples of scaffold
The ordinary pleasures and frustrations of interdependence wither under fawning’s pathologizing scaffold.
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
These scaffold branches help support new growth and keep those large, heavy blooms upright.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
The best scaffold branches connect to the trunk at about a 45 to 60-degree angle.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
Technical Rescue units met with building management, who explained that the scaffold suffered a mechanical failure, leaving the two window washers stranded roughly 15 stories above the ground, the department shared.
—Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
These scaffold branches help support new growth and keep those large, heavy blooms upright.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
The best scaffold branches connect to the trunk at about a 45 to 60-degree angle.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
Technical Rescue units met with building management, who explained that the scaffold suffered a mechanical failure, leaving the two window washers stranded roughly 15 stories above the ground, the department shared.
—Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scaffold
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Cisco says the platform is built to support massive AI clusters running training, inference, and real-time agentic workloads while improving efficiency and lowering operating costs.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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The post racked up millions of likes before later being removed — but not before copies spread widely across other international platforms.—
Trista Kurniawan,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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London — Athletes on the podium at the Winter Olympics in Italy this month will be awarded the most expensive medals in the history of the Games, thanks to soaring precious metals prices.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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This World Cup season has delivered rotating podiums, razor-thin margins often decided by hundredths of a second, and speeds pushing 75–85 mph on true fall-line tracks.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Scaffold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scaffold. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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