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Recent Examples of terrarium
Shot in unique settings like a terrarium and an aquarium, these visuals symbolize comfort and familiarity—contrasted by striking, avant-garde designs that push her artistry into new territory.
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Billboard Korea, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2025
One day, the snake escaped from its terrarium in the garage.
—Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
For example, use a science or math workbook to introduce your kid to the basics, and follow up with a hands-on experiment, like building a volcano or terrarium together.
—Fiona Tapp, Parents, 3 Feb. 2025
These are difficult shoes to make work (a sort of non-item anchoring an outfit to nothing), which, as anyone who lived through 2016 knows, will also function as a terrarium, in which varying bacteria flourish no matter the podiatric preening involved beforehand.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
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Billboard Korea, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2025
One day, the snake escaped from its terrarium in the garage.
—Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
For example, use a science or math workbook to introduce your kid to the basics, and follow up with a hands-on experiment, like building a volcano or terrarium together.
—Fiona Tapp, Parents, 3 Feb. 2025
These are difficult shoes to make work (a sort of non-item anchoring an outfit to nothing), which, as anyone who lived through 2016 knows, will also function as a terrarium, in which varying bacteria flourish no matter the podiatric preening involved beforehand.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terrarium
Noun
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Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, had half an answer to the question of why an aquarium in a Republican senator’s district would be getting half as much money in the two-year state budget as an aquarium in Duff’s district would.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2025
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Ellie eventually made it to the aquarium – after a stressful close encounter with some Seraphites – and found Abby’s friends Owen (Spencer Lord) and Mel (Ariela Barer), both of whom were there when Abby killed Joel (Pedro Pascal) earlier this season.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
25 May 2025
Noun
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As her friend was talking to the female suspect, Lomeli left to find a box to place the kittens in, since the suspects did not want the hand over the cage that originally carried the animals.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
5 June 2025
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The scientists have already utilized the technology to print items such as a checkerboard pattern, a cross, a chain, a ball in a cage, and two balls in a helix.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
4 June 2025
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“Terrarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terrarium. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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