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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Independent redistricting advocates have railed against politically skewed voting districts designed to benefit one political party, describing such gerrymandering as a way to distort election outcomes by letting politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around.
—Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Some even come with a clothes rail, shelves for storage bins, and door mirrors.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 29 Sep. 2025
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Noun
And there’s plenty of bad out there — including a news story about a faulty railing giving way and causing a woman’s death.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Independent redistricting advocates have railed against politically skewed voting districts designed to benefit one political party, describing such gerrymandering as a way to distort election outcomes by letting politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around.
—Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
Mecklenburg County voters will decide whether to approve a 1% sales tax increase to fund road, rail and bus projects.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Some even come with a clothes rail, shelves for storage bins, and door mirrors.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rail
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String fairy lights along the railing, line your steps with lanterns filled with faux candles or add wall sconces beside the door.—
Angie Hicks,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Six of its wooden bridges, stairs, signs, hand railings and an observation deck were destroyed in the 2008 Basin Complex Fire.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Following a 12-game non-conference slate, highlighted by home bouts with Utah State and Davidson, as well as road clashes with Virginia Tech and Appalachian State, the 49ers tip off what hopes to be a bounce-back year in conference play — starting on New Year’s Eve.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Sep. 2025
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Drivers should be prepared for changing conditions that include snow and icy roads.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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TikTok user @shotmyheartwithnovacaine posted a video in July ranting about how people dress when going to concerts to her 137K followers.—
Laney Crawley,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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No need to rant and rave at the AI about its code generation.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The partnership is aimed at strengthening the companies' services as the freight rail industry becomes increasingly competitive — particularly as Union Pacific moves ahead with its plans to acquire Norfolk Southern to create a transcontinental railroad.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
25 Sep. 2025
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Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th Century.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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As for fighting the Trump pressure campaign, even politicians as ambitious as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are mostly left to file lawsuits — and fulminate.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2025
Noun
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The move comes as the US backs the Lobito Corridor project, a rival railway upgrade in the southwest of the continent, which will refurbish train lines that connect Angola’s Atlantic coast to resource-rich DR Congo, as well as Zambia.—
Preeti Jha,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Mahama worked with a team to complete this project, unloading four trucks of scrap metal, tirelessly extracting the matter, and disassembling railway cars.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Strapped for resources and now actively reviled and threatened by their government, theaters and producers are pouncing on opportunities to lay out a little less money or to spend on one big name in the hopes of clawing their way out of the red.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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In southern Gaza, the Abu Shabab militia is widely reviled, and Abu Shabab’s own family has disassociated itself from him and called for his death.—
Leila Seurat,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Rail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rail. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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