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Recent Examples of shingle
Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
Air pollution in Joppa has been tied to nearby industrial sources, including an asphalt shingle plant, a railroad switchyard and other facilities.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026
This gets a hit of lemon juice and garlic before it’s shingled onto your biggest platter with accompaniments: crunchy iceberg, bursting cherry tomatoes, punchy red onion, and pita chip croutons.
—Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Avoid choosing colors without thinking about the whole picture; always consider how your shingle selection interacts with surrounding elements, including gutters, doors, shutters, and even landscaping.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
Air pollution in Joppa has been tied to nearby industrial sources, including an asphalt shingle plant, a railroad switchyard and other facilities.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
The white shingled oceanfront property got a top-to-bottom redo in 2005, led by Michael S. Smith, the interior designer who famously decorated the Obama White House.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026
This gets a hit of lemon juice and garlic before it’s shingled onto your biggest platter with accompaniments: crunchy iceberg, bursting cherry tomatoes, punchy red onion, and pita chip croutons.
—Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
Noun
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Mazzei explains that Il Caggio features a combination of factors ideal for Sangiovese, including altitudes between 1,050 and 1,150 feet, which ensure balanced ripening, and deep and well-drained clay, schist, and calcareous marl soils dotted with a type of sandstone that imparts intense minerality.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
14 Dec. 2025
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In Friuli Venezia Giulia, the soils are rich in marl and sandstone, locally referred to as ponca.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Noun
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The Micro Bob Zoë Kravitz on the red carpet at last year’s Academy Museum Gala is a great example of this bob, defined by a feminine flick at the end and a gappy micro-fringe.—
Jeanne Ballion,
Vogue,
30 Mar. 2026
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This might be the sassiest bob of the year.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching at the school, along with Hazel Larsen Archer, who had overlapped with Rauschenberg in 1949 and captured his love of movement and of grace in a photograph of her own.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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Clavius can be recognized by dint of an arcing line of impact craters nestled within its 143-mile (230 km) expanse, along with the Porter and Rutherford impact sites, which overlap part of its northeastern and southeastern rim.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Picnic detritus surrounds our little camp, and my two boys are wrestling not far away.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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The sun shines on the empty wine bottles and related detritus of last night’s debauched party.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Fears was one of the most vocal supporters of a $55 million general obligation bond approved by Independence voters last year, earmarked for rebuilding and overlaying streets around Independence.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
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To do this, Schlatter overlaid the crowding composites tracked by Citi.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Michael McEwan and wife Heather Nakahara returned to their home in Waialua on Oahu’s North Shore over the weekend to find their kitchen counters covered in red silt.—
Audrey McAvoy,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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This ocean canyon heaves waves of shale and basalt, quartz and silt.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Once soil health improves, many gardeners find that digging individual planting holes is sufficient for establishing crops.—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
4 Apr. 2026
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Intentional feeding of bears is now prohibited, and farmers may seek permits to address excessive bear damage to crops or livestock.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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By 1896, the offshore rigs were operational; their pipes extended down through several metres of water and a couple hundred more of seafloor sediment.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The remains were found partially covered in sediment, and their position on a sediment pile suggests intentional placement, likely as part of a ritual funerary practice.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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