1
: intended or suitable for one's home
an at-home dress
2
: being or occurring at one's home
at-home entertainment
3
: not employed outside the home : stay-at-home
an at-home mom
: a reception given at one's home
Examples of at-home in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
Bryant's proposal also would bar localities from banning at-home crypto mining or require a resident to apply for a permit to mine for crypto at home.
—Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
According to market analysts, posture correction technologies are expected to grow approximately 5.7 percent over the next five years, especially with rising demands due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more at-home workers complaining of back pain.
—Beth Linker, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
That’s according to a new Bloomberg report which claims the iPhone maker is reallocating resources from its now defunct car project and shifting them towards an at-home, mobile robot.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
And their success is easier to verify: Men have long been able to check their own sperm count with a device that’s similar to an at-home COVID test, but no parallel exists for women, Wang told me.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
According to the Cleveland Clinic, at-home tests can generally detect pregnancy about four weeks from the point of the last period.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
While traditional homemade coffee is a simple process -- whether the pour-over method, stovetop or coffee machine pods -- the production of at-home iced coffee can be made easier by way of a variety of different at-home iced coffee machines.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2024
But research shows rinsing rice could be an at-home solution to reducing the toxicity of white rice.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
Environmentalists were ignoring the fact that millions in other regions had no electricity, while others could barely afford to turn the lights on at home, let alone buy electric cars.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
But vision protection is easy to come by and can even by DIY-ed at home, the doctor adds.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
While Levin anticipates tougher competition at home, Scania is setting up its own plant in China to benefit from growth in the world’s biggest truck market.
—Rafaela Lindeberg, Fortune Europe, 4 Apr. 2024
At the end of the half a year at sea, he is allowed a two-to-three-month stay at home with his family.
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival: books that don’t flinch away from the ambiguous rift between past and present, the implausibility of ever feeling at home again.
—Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
The living and gathering areas are certainly commodious, but furnished to make residents and guests alike feel at home.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
Reversing that is vital; nine of Miami’s 12 remaining games are at home.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
Adjective
Broken supply chains sent prices up for all kinds of goods as people rushed to buy used cars, at-home office equipment and backyard furniture.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
Bryant's proposal also would bar localities from banning at-home crypto mining or require a resident to apply for a permit to mine for crypto at home.
—Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
According to market analysts, posture correction technologies are expected to grow approximately 5.7 percent over the next five years, especially with rising demands due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more at-home workers complaining of back pain.
—Beth Linker, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
That’s according to a new Bloomberg report which claims the iPhone maker is reallocating resources from its now defunct car project and shifting them towards an at-home, mobile robot.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
And their success is easier to verify: Men have long been able to check their own sperm count with a device that’s similar to an at-home COVID test, but no parallel exists for women, Wang told me.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
According to the Cleveland Clinic, at-home tests can generally detect pregnancy about four weeks from the point of the last period.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
While traditional homemade coffee is a simple process -- whether the pour-over method, stovetop or coffee machine pods -- the production of at-home iced coffee can be made easier by way of a variety of different at-home iced coffee machines.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2024
But research shows rinsing rice could be an at-home solution to reducing the toxicity of white rice.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
Noun
This game Wednesday, at home vs. Mexican power Monterrey in the CONCACAF Champions Cup tournament, was the most important match in Messi’s now nine-months with Miami in Major League Soccer as well as concurrent tournaments like this one.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
Environmentalists were ignoring the fact that millions in other regions had no electricity, while others could barely afford to turn the lights on at home, let alone buy electric cars.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
But vision protection is easy to come by and can even by DIY-ed at home, the doctor adds.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
While Levin anticipates tougher competition at home, Scania is setting up its own plant in China to benefit from growth in the world’s biggest truck market.
—Rafaela Lindeberg, Fortune Europe, 4 Apr. 2024
At the end of the half a year at sea, he is allowed a two-to-three-month stay at home with his family.
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival: books that don’t flinch away from the ambiguous rift between past and present, the implausibility of ever feeling at home again.
—Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
The living and gathering areas are certainly commodious, but furnished to make residents and guests alike feel at home.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
Reversing that is vital; nine of Miami’s 12 remaining games are at home.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
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