: a board made of several plies of fiberboard, paper, or felt bonded to a hardened gypsum plaster core and used especially as wallboard
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Seefried, 54 a drywall installer from Maryland, was memorialized carrying a Confederate flag in one of the most indelible photographs taken on Jan. 6 — parading with a symbol of the proslavery Civil War rebels through the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
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Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
Wood, drywall, tiles, roof shingles — all these items often wind up jumbled together for dropoff at the landfill.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
That will include drywall and plaster work, painting, plumbing and eventually building a parking lot.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
Within the following days, workers also sanitized facilities and pulled out wet drywall.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
Extra insulation and drywall keep the converted garage comfortable nearly year-round.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2024
At the time, Biles posted more construction photos of the beginnings of a laundry room with sliding glass doors and drywall at the construction site.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
The explosion blew out windows and walls on the first and second floors of the hotel, in the historic Waggoner Building, sending debris including drywall, wood, glass, metal and insulation flying into the streets.
—Harriet Ramosand, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
That’s because new Chief Soccer Officer Khaled El-Ahmad is literally having walls torn down, having a contractor remove the drywall between the Loons’ first-team and academy operations.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Feb. 2024
Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
Wood, drywall, tiles, roof shingles — all these items often wind up jumbled together for dropoff at the landfill.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
That will include drywall and plaster work, painting, plumbing and eventually building a parking lot.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
Within the following days, workers also sanitized facilities and pulled out wet drywall.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
Extra insulation and drywall keep the converted garage comfortable nearly year-round.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2024
At the time, Biles posted more construction photos of the beginnings of a laundry room with sliding glass doors and drywall at the construction site.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
The explosion blew out windows and walls on the first and second floors of the hotel, in the historic Waggoner Building, sending debris including drywall, wood, glass, metal and insulation flying into the streets.
—Harriet Ramosand, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
That’s because new Chief Soccer Officer Khaled El-Ahmad is literally having walls torn down, having a contractor remove the drywall between the Loons’ first-team and academy operations.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Feb. 2024
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drywall
noun
dry·wall
ˈdrī-ˌwȯl 
: a board made of layers of fiberboard, paper, or felt bonded to a plaster core
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