: 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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That can lead the water to creep into shingles, causing leaks or water damage to a home's attic, ceiling, drywall and floors.
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Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
Inside a 32,000 square foot modular home factory filled with the sounds of construction, high school student June Baker and her teacher Darrin Rassmusen huddled over blueprints trying to figure out what went wrong with a drywall installation.
—Sam Fuqua, NPR, 11 Dec. 2025
Even the drywall and walls had to come out.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Dec. 2025
The forecast said nearly 70% of all lumber imports come from Canada and roughly the same percentage of all gypsum imports, a major component of drywall, are from Mexico.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 3 Dec. 2025
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Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
Inside a 32,000 square foot modular home factory filled with the sounds of construction, high school student June Baker and her teacher Darrin Rassmusen huddled over blueprints trying to figure out what went wrong with a drywall installation.
—Sam Fuqua, NPR, 11 Dec. 2025
Even the drywall and walls had to come out.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Dec. 2025
The forecast said nearly 70% of all lumber imports come from Canada and roughly the same percentage of all gypsum imports, a major component of drywall, are from Mexico.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 3 Dec. 2025
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“Drywall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drywall. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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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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