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Recent Examples of shingle
Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The facade combines wood that has been painted red, spruce shingles, and glazing with integrated solar panels, helping to reduce its draw on the grid.
—New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The shrimp cocktail at the comically exclusive Polo Bar in Manhattan is an imposing specimen, the crustaceans arriving tightly shingled on a steeple of ice accented by a celery spire.
—Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Powerful straight-line winds that strafed Carmichael neighborhoods, toppling trees and sending roof shingles and patio furniture flying, blew in on the coattails of thunderstorms that struck the Sacramento area Tuesday.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The facade combines wood that has been painted red, spruce shingles, and glazing with integrated solar panels, helping to reduce its draw on the grid.
—New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
The pristine shingled buildings behind a white picket fence at The Roundtree only hint at their long history, but one of its cottages dates back 250 years.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The shrimp cocktail at the comically exclusive Polo Bar in Manhattan is an imposing specimen, the crustaceans arriving tightly shingled on a steeple of ice accented by a celery spire.
—Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
Noun
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Right now, everyone’s getting a casual collarbone bob to welcome the fall season.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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Bardot bangs and Old Hollywood bobs have also been red-carpet staples recently.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Maybe a persona of boastful anger has something in common, and the two persona vectors overlap.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Gaudí’s secular and sacred impulses overlapped.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The avalanche temporarily dammed the Lonza River, which runs through Blatten, and small lakes, filled with dead trees and detritus from homes, formed on each side of the village.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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But its detritus remains, giving rise to streaks that wow sky watchers every August.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The sound department actually played the music that would overlay the scene as Dockery acted.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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At its core, Caption with Intention is a novel captioning design system which aims to significantly augment several critical points of failure within traditional captioning by overlaying animation, color and variable typography to bring the text to life.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Whereas previous metal pollution records extracted their silt, or evidence from areas far from their sources— upland peat cores or mountain and polar glaciers, Cambridge specifies –the most recent data comes from the epicenter of production, a paleochannel of the River Ure, Cambridge explains.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Most of the global production of castor seed is concentrated in India, where the crop thrives in semi-arid regions with minimal water, fertilizer, or pesticide inputs.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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But, while established young Catalan talent continues to rise, 2025 brought yet a new crop of directors to watch.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In a new study published in Antiquity, researchers from Cambridge and Nottingham examined a 16-feet sediment core from Aldborough in Yorkshire, an important center of metal production located at a former Roman tribal town of Brigantes.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Direct dating Paleontologists often estimate the age of plant and animal fossils based on sediments where the organic material was preserved.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Federal Reserve is closely watching spending trends as policymakers debate a path for interest rate cuts — with the first trim expected Wednesday — but signs of a weakening labor market loom over the economy.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The engine is adequate but not speedy, especially in non-hybrid trims, and some rivals beat it on handling or driving engagement.—
Josh Max,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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