plywood
noun
ply·wood
ˈplī-ˌwu̇d 
: a structural material consisting of sheets of wood glued or cemented together with the grains of adjacent layers arranged at right angles or at a wide angle
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Four bedrooms and three bathrooms, plus a powder room, include a lower-level primary suite with a plywood bathroom that opens to a flagstone terrace that meanders over to the pool.
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Mark David, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2025
At the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, American soldiers recently built a simple plywood tank for reconnaissance and targeting drills conducted with Ukrainian troops.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
It's finished in plywood and has a ceiling fan installed.
—New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2025
One spring when Yazid was seventeen or eighteen, the Nazimuddin College boys developed a passion for carrom board, poor man’s billiards, played on a plywood square by knocking round wooden pucks into corner pockets with a plastic striker.
—Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
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Mark David, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2025
At the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, American soldiers recently built a simple plywood tank for reconnaissance and targeting drills conducted with Ukrainian troops.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
It's finished in plywood and has a ceiling fan installed.
—New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2025
One spring when Yazid was seventeen or eighteen, the Nazimuddin College boys developed a passion for carrom board, poor man’s billiards, played on a plywood square by knocking round wooden pucks into corner pockets with a plastic striker.
—Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
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plywood
noun
ply·wood
ˈplī-ˌwu̇d
: a strong board made by gluing thin sheets of wood together under heat and pressure
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