as in crafts
an occupation requiring skillful use of the hands
one of the country's finest practitioners of the art of cabinetmaking
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Recent Examples of arts
The gathering will bring together local groups, including CRS, Epic Partners and Coach Core, alongside stakeholders and funders, to highlight their work tackling youth violence and supporting young people through outreach, sports and creative arts.
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Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Cultural highlights include lion dance shows and demonstrations of iconic Asian arts, such as sugar painting and paper cutting.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Restore full funding for charity grants The main focus of the budget hearing was arts groups and nonprofits providing after-school camps, senior services, free meals and other help.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Stop politicizing the Federal Reserve, Justice Department, arts, schools and museums.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The large automaker has been a backer of the facility and its arts mission for more than two decades.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
The local artist says the Space Coast’s arts scene is rapidly growing and expanding.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
During the performing arts season, arts editor Jim Higgins recommends promising music, dance and theater productions to see in the coming month.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Some of the dessert content arises during an extended episode where the Brotherhood orders Ruth to attend a nearby community college’s culinary-arts program—but not so very much of it.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Cultural highlights include lion dance shows and demonstrations of iconic Asian arts, such as sugar painting and paper cutting.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Restore full funding for charity grants The main focus of the budget hearing was arts groups and nonprofits providing after-school camps, senior services, free meals and other help.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Stop politicizing the Federal Reserve, Justice Department, arts, schools and museums.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The large automaker has been a backer of the facility and its arts mission for more than two decades.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
The local artist says the Space Coast’s arts scene is rapidly growing and expanding.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
During the performing arts season, arts editor Jim Higgins recommends promising music, dance and theater productions to see in the coming month.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Some of the dessert content arises during an extended episode where the Brotherhood orders Ruth to attend a nearby community college’s culinary-arts program—but not so very much of it.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arts
crafts
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Attractions include kitschy traditions such as a butter-sculpting demonstration, in which a master carver crafts a bust of the winner of the annual Princess Kay of the Milky Way pageant, and the Miracle of Birth Center, displaying pens of expectant farm animals.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Across all of these places, visitors can see how traditional regional crafts fused with imports from other parts of the world to create a unique style of clothing and art that still persists into the present.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Arts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arts. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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