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Add Color to a Garland Use ribbon or florist wire to secure garland throughout your home, decorating banisters, mantels, large mirrors, doorways, and even outdoor features like mailboxes and porch railings.
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Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Dec. 2024
The officer shakes a bed sheet at the pigeon over the second-floor balcony banister.
—Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
Almost 14,000 square feet of living space is accented throughout with antiques from the collection of newspaper publisher and Crosby friend William Randolph Hearst, including a 17th-century wood staircase banister, linen fold paneling, and custom furnishings.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
Nothing’s left but the stairs, banisters, and porch railing.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025
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Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Dec. 2024
The officer shakes a bed sheet at the pigeon over the second-floor balcony banister.
—Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
Almost 14,000 square feet of living space is accented throughout with antiques from the collection of newspaper publisher and Crosby friend William Randolph Hearst, including a 17th-century wood staircase banister, linen fold paneling, and custom furnishings.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
Nothing’s left but the stairs, banisters, and porch railing.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for banister
Noun
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Police said some commuters leaped over the railing while others were crushed or fell underfoot and were trampled.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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At first, Souper, whose real name is Hugo, tries to push Jeff over the railing at the top of a tall flight of stairs.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
1 June 2025
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The largest high-speed rail project in the country has released new images of its progress on infrastructure in Central Valley in California.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fires them from portable rails or from racks on trucks, and the small pulse rocket on the bottom of each drone slams it to cruise speed before falling off.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
16 June 2025
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“Banister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banister. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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