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Recent Examples of shingle
Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 8 May 2025
The majority of American roofs are made of asphalt shingles, which are manufactured domestically.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Built in the 1950s, the wood shingled house was more of a summer cottage than a year-round residence.
—Stacie Stukin, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The shingles vaccine is associated with a significantly lower risk of heart disease, a new study suggests.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 8 May 2025
The majority of American roofs are made of asphalt shingles, which are manufactured domestically.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Built in the 1950s, the wood shingled house was more of a summer cottage than a year-round residence.
—Stacie Stukin, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
Noun
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The vines are planted in limestone, marl, and clay soils and are situated with eastern and southeastern exposures at altitudes of 750 to 1,000 feet so grapes mature perfectly with the right balance of sugars, acid, and minerality.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2025
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The region’s soil mixture of marl, clayey limestone, marine sandstone, and rough clay draws out Glera’s creamy texture and fresh peach notes, the wine’s signature aromatic characteristic.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
Noun
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At the event, the actress revealed that her now famous bob from the HBO series was styled by the man behind the famed Rachel haircut on Friends: Chris McMillan.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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Her own hair, waist-length for her entire life, was chopped into a chin-length bob.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Slowly run the brush attachment over the cushion in overlapping lines, lightly scrubbing away stains.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
14 June 2025
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Several overlapping organizations are organizing the rallies, including Indivisible, a progressive group formed in 2016 I the wake of Trump's first election win, the American Civil Liberties Union, and 50501, a group formed earlier this year in response to President Trump's second administration.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2025
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In some ways, archival research has always demanded sorting through verbal and visual detritus and working around unexpected gaps in records.—
Michael Waters,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2025
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But wise, connected AI development and use can serve as a vein of gold through the detritus of disruption and destruction of coming years, manifesting the priceless role of humanity in the evolution of consciousness.—
Ginny Whitelaw,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
Verb
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The vast glass windows and doors of the building, called Lakeside Center at McCormick Place, are overlaid with a pattern of close, opaque dots.—
Vincent Alban,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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The problems at control towers and facilities overlay an ongoing stress passengers feel over a string of technology outages, close calls and fatal accidents.—
Amanda Musa,
CNN Money,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Vines growing on black silt and sand are lined parallel to the direction of the mistral wind from the north.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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The pictures captured the lifeless water full of debris and silt, stagnant, clotted and scabbed with rubbish.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
Noun
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Try to find a spot for new okra plantings where root knot nematodes have not affected previous crops.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2025
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And earlier that year, farmers also contended with a late-spring frost that affected some crops, like peaches.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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The three mosaics were discovered beneath several feet of sediment alongside what appear to be stone walls, photos show.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
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The team of Spanish researchers spotted the oblong rock below 5 feet (1.5 meters) of sediment during an excavation in July 2022 and reported their findings in a paper published May 24 in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.—
Rosa Rahimi,
CNN Money,
29 May 2025
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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