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Recent Examples of shingle
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
18 June 2026
They're halved and arranged in shingle-like rows, sprinkled with blueberries and lemon zest, then soaked overnight in a cream-and-egg custard.
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Maggie Meyer Glisan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 June 2026
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
In fact, shingles rates among people in their 30s and 40s increased for almost two decades starting in 1998—and younger adults and children can get the illness too.
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Petra Guglielmetti,
Glamour,
7 May 2026
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Noun
As part of the new pact, Brunson and her Fifth Chance Productions shingle will develop, write and executive produce projects for Disney Entertainment Television’s brands and platforms.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
18 June 2026
They're halved and arranged in shingle-like rows, sprinkled with blueberries and lemon zest, then soaked overnight in a cream-and-egg custard.
—
Maggie Meyer Glisan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 June 2026
Verb
The island had gone from farm and pasture in the nineteenth century to nature preserves and residential property in the twentieth, its silvery shingled homes encircled by forests and deer.
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Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
In fact, shingles rates among people in their 30s and 40s increased for almost two decades starting in 1998—and younger adults and children can get the illness too.
—
Petra Guglielmetti,
Glamour,
7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
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Freshman Ben Smith became the first NCAA outdoor champion for Oregon in the shot put since Dean Crouser (1982) with a marl of 69-0 1/2.
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Its striking blue-green hues and clarity—allowing visibility of 20 to 30 feet—are due to minimal organic runoff and calcium-rich marl sediment from its glacial origins.
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Actress Jessica Chastain, meanwhile, shared a photo of her hair styled up in a bob.
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Lobs While bobs may be the buzziest cut in beauty, stylists are encouraging their over-50 clients to adopt longer versions.
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That means defining how and when to see the lights themselves, and how our aurora season overlaps with the polar bears and belugas.
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That nine year window overlaps almost exactly with the stretch when treatment offers the most protection for brain health, so the delay carries real cost.
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Rather, our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles—not just meteoroids but larger bodies, such as comets, asteroids, and other cosmic detritus—and Earth is right in the firing line.
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Want to take a dip but daunted by the scum and detritus on your pool's walls, floors, and surfaces?
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For fruit crops, Pritts explains that offspring are often lower in quality than either parent.
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In the Democratic primary, Jamie Davis, a northeast Louisiana crop farmer, faces Gary Crockett, a Navy veteran and business executive.
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And the expansive format would be a particular novelty for the Kansas City area, where the spectacle of hosting six matches (and ultimately four base camps) would loom largest overlaid on the smallest of the sites.
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Another photo was overlaid with a Black Lives Matter filter in remembrance of Atatiana Jefferson, the Black woman who was fatally shot by a Fort Worth police officer in 2019.
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The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
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The Hansen Dam Aquatic Center pool was constructed in 1999 in a $15-million project to replace a previous pool in the area that was filled with silt.
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The Denali Ultimate trim will feature over 60 inches of screen space.
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Kristen Stewart dons a classic black Chanel jumpsuit with a white trim and gold button detailing at the 2026 Biarritz Film Festival on June 26 in Biarritz, France.
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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