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Recent Examples of aperture It's designed for deep sky astrophotography, while also being well suited to image capture of the Sun and Moon – with its camera system built around a Sony IMX585 sensor and 50-mm aperture. New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025 This month, Tapestry laid out the strategic plan that will guide it for the next three years, focusing pushing Coach toward $10 billion in sales and opening the customer aperture, targeting not just women who bought bags last year, but also women who could have. Evan Clark, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025 If using a regular camera, photography experts have recommended using a wide-angle lens, an aperture or F-stop of four or less and a focus set to the furthest possible setting. Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 Through this aperture, sunlight could filter all the way down to the church floor. D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aperture
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Noun
  • Buffalo’s forward depth has already been tested early in the season, and Danforth is a versatile player who helps the Sabres plug holes in the bottom six.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • When the Chicago rat hole went viral, Magle and his team considered how the mark was made.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Following a soft-opening in December 2015, the Gobbler Theater started booking national acts the following spring, primarily hosting country artists like LeAnn Rimes, Eli Young Band, Maddie & Tae and Ronnie Milsap.
    Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Selective showroom openings, increasing service coverage and personalized service have helped the brand's clients grow their confidence in the company, and have showed that Ferrari is a brand worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars with.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hospital was the first Belgian hospital to introduce the single port Da Vinci robot, enabling complex procedures through a single incision or natural orifice.
    Christophe Mouton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In fish, the cloaca is a single orifice that handles excretion (both urine and fecal material) as well as reproduction.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Northbound and southbound lanes were closed as the response team extracted the animal from the crevice safely.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Methane has been measured escaping from crevices in the seabed at a high rate as the region warms at unprecedented rates, according to a paper published in Nature Communications.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Using sharp paring knife, cut four 1 1/2-inch long slits in top of dough (think of a clock for slit placement at 12,3,6,9 positions).
    Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • White tulle fabric peeked through the black velvet skirt due to a front slit that went all the way from the waist to the hem.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Aperture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aperture. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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