angle (for)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angle (for)
Verb
  • That set off a roughly two-year struggle to hammer out the complex details of how that would work, even as legal challenges poured in.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • Today, standards bodies from ISO 20022 working groups to the BIS’s Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures are hammering out privacy, messaging, and liquidity templates for CBDCs.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • See more Trump’s AI image of himself as the pope was condemned by leading Catholics, but the idea of a gaggle of secretive, red-robed men deliberating and scheming in an escape room is catnip for our imaginations.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 May 2025
  • The levels of staff, the levels of seriousness, offensive coordinators are really scheming.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2025
Verb
  • Until his death in Pennsylvania last year, Gülen, a Turkish Muslim preacher who was accused of plotting a coup against President Recep Tayyip in 2016, was wanted as a terrorist leader in Turkey and Pakistan.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 14 May 2025
  • The Keeling Curve, a graph that plots concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere over time, uses measurements taken at Mau Loa Observatory, starting in 1958.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • The $1,100 price is in New Taiwan Dollars, or NTD; that worked out at today's exchange rate to about $36.50.
    John Burek, PC Magazine, 19 May 2025
  • But while the Haitian government pays pays 11 gourdes per gallon in transport fees, the average cost to the sector works out to be about 45 gourdes, or 34 cents, executives say.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • That spectacle included military flyovers, concerts with expensive talent like Jennifer Lopez and Usher, and seemingly more fireworks than the Fourth of July.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2025
  • With Taylor Swift's Eras tour in full swing last year, Unclaimed Baggage reported an uptick in sparkly clothes, friendship bracelets, and concert merchandise in the inventory.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • To offset its own risk, Christie’s arranged for outside buyers to place pre-sale bids on certain lots.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • Fearing that terrorists or criminals might use such technology to plan attacks, arrange financing or recruit members, the Clinton administration advocated a system called the Clipper Chip, based on a concept of key escrow.
    Richard Forno, The Conversation, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • If you’re still intrigued by waterbeds, consider going to Pittsburgh to try one out before purchasing!
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2025
  • And the opportunity to rebuild around Alcántara, who is the No. 5 prospect in the Cubs' system, should intrigue them.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • The wind sighs: Save me, Lord, for the waters have compassed my soul.
    Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Abigail Jackson The adjacent dining area is dedicated to family heirlooms like a set of Allan Gould compass chairs from Kate’s interior designer grandmother and a red vintage rug from her great-grandparents.
    Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Angle (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angle%20%28for%29. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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