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Recent Examples of column
One play typified Texas’ return to the win column.
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Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 26 Jan. 2026
Snow happens if the column of air is below freezing from the cloud to the ground.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Calvert-Lewin’s travails with Everton are laid bare in that final column.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
The Animal Life column runs on Mondays.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
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Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 26 Jan. 2026
Snow happens if the column of air is below freezing from the cloud to the ground.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Calvert-Lewin’s travails with Everton are laid bare in that final column.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
The Animal Life column runs on Mondays.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for column
Noun
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Cubans already face constant blackouts and long lines at gas stations from a dwindling supply of fuel.—
Uriel Blanco,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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The producers and the author were doing kind of book events and the lines were like several times around the block.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In the end, Laffrey, whose Broadway credits include Maybe Happy Ending and Parade, settled for using an iPhone app to record the size of pilasters and mullioned mirrors.—
Carey Purcell,
Architectural Digest,
27 Oct. 2025
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With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Videos included in the post show the band members being escorted through the attraction’s queue as onlookers cheer them on.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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Any Londoner or New Yorker knows the queues all too well.—
Lela London,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Like O’Leary, elder care industry leaders nationwide are bracing for the loss of a key pillar of their workforce.—
Tami Luhby,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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The highlight of these sneakers is definitely the striking Shox pillars on the sole.—
Katharina Fuchs,
Glamour,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Charlotte is only 22-28 overall and still just 11th in the 15-team Eastern Conference, even after running off six in a row.—
Scott Fowler The Charlotte Observer,
Arkansas Online,
2 Feb. 2026
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The future five-time Super Bowl MVP was with his family, sitting five rows from the top of the stadium, badgering his parents to buy him an oversized foam finger.—
Daniel Brown,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who is eager for another round of Regency-era declarations of love, unrealistically high standards of romance and string covers of pop music to feel alive again.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The game against the Kraken wasn’t the most egregious of the Leafs’ latest string of losses, but at this point, moral victories hardly matter.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The documents were disclosed as mandated by a law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Maxwell.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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The documents were disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted after months of public and political pressure that requires the government to open its files on the late financier and his confidante and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Column.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/column. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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