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Recent Examples of air-dry
Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
For care, the brand recommends using a gentle machine cycle with cold water, then laying flat to air-dry.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Adjective
This kit contains everything your partner needs to make and paint air-dry pots.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
For care, the brand recommends using a gentle machine cycle with cold water, then laying flat to air-dry.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
Be sure to air-dry the topper before making your bed.
—Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air-dry
Adjective
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Since this kit is intended for use with regular polish, consider this Sally Hansen Insta-Dry quick dry polish set.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The command center overhead stocked a whole town’s worth (450 tonnes) of equipment — including bunk beds, dry toilets, water, and other supplies — ready to be mobilized into the tunnels below by way of dolly carts.—
Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
The Dial,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Future chefs and home cooks will learn to cook, bake and decorate, all from scratch.—
Terri Daxon,
Oc Register,
1 May 2025
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Celebrate World Sun Day by building a solar oven, setting up a snack to bake, and learning about solar energy.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The promise of copious amounts of profitable new airlines, meanwhile, evaporated like jet fuel on a hot tarmac.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
1 May 2025
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As the trees get their leaves in the spring, water evaporates from the leaves, and that pulls a column of water all the way up through the roots, trunk and branches of the tree.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Their leaves will begin to shrivel up, and their stems and roots will look dehydrated and thin.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
10 Apr. 2025
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Zucchini and crookneck squash: Exterior should be free of soft spots, nicks, or shriveling.—
Cathy Thomas,
Orange County Register,
1 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.—
Tribune Content Agency,
oregonlive,
27 Nov. 2022
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Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.—
Camille Fine,
USA TODAY,
22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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Photograph: Pablo Romero In the arid region south of Mexicali, where the pale desert dominates the landscape, the Las Arenitas wetland feels like a mirage.—
Geraldine Castro,
Wired News,
23 Apr. 2025
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With reduced visibility, poor air quality and hazardous driving conditions, large-scale dust storms like this reflect ongoing challenges posed by drought and land degradation in arid regions.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
6 Dec. 2023
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Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.—
Brad Leithauser,
WSJ,
10 Nov. 2023
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“Air-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air-dry. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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