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Recent Examples of carbon The three-in-one machine will tackle the usual suspects, dust and particles, but also remove formaldehyde with a carbon filter (which can be found in some carpets and furniture and cause eyes and throat irritation). Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025 Digital trade, regulatory alignment, the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism, and sector-specific issues like autos, shipbuilding, and steel are all on the table. Myron Brilliant, Time, 9 July 2025 These are carbon credits issued not for planting trees, but for keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Michael Sheldrick, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 But the rapid growth of AI has pushed up the sector's carbon pollution. Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for carbon
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Noun
  • Miami — where the twins grew up and where their mother lives — made a heavy push to keep them home, and was considered a front-runner at various points in their recruitment.
    Brendan Marks, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence were happy children who shared the kind of bond twins do, but the 8-year-old girls from Dallas were also different from each other.
    Andrew DeMillo, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • American Heart Debuts at No. 1 Luminate reports that in its first seven days of availability in the country, American Heart sold 30,000 copies.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • His 1806 map does not have street names, but a copy kept with the Library of Congress shows numerical markings below all but one of the streets running perpendicular to the Ohio River.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Flagship boutiques from Milan and Paris lined the promenades, conjuring images of home.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Spotify recently celebrated the soundtrack's success by using the image of HUNTR/X on the cover of the service's official teen beats playlist.
    EW.com, EW.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Ross noted that the exhibit includes murals with life-size reproductions of figures that were originally painted smaller.
    Kelly Haramis, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The 13-inch OLED touch screen is stunning, with fantastic color reproduction and crisp visuals.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • One of Tim Harmon’s proudest achievements, his son Avi Harmon said, was the creation of the Statue of Liberty Museum, home to more than 600 replicas of Lady Liberty in all sizes.
    Samanta Habashy, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
  • There are replicas of her most beloved pots and utensils, handwritten and typed letters, and other ephemera.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Movie review: ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ is a cold-blooded clone in which wonder has gone extinct.
    Andrew J. Campa Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2025
  • Not a Gundam game trying to be an Overwatch clone, or a shooter with dudes cosplaying as mecha.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • On TikTok, Nicole shared a text exchange with Samantha, the mother who invited her, and Samantha reveals that Stasia and Jake were told that she was invited—Samantha even shared a picture of the meal Nicole had prepared, the now-iconic antipasto.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • In terms of your five best pictures, Jaws, Dog Day Afternoon, Barry Lyndon, Nashville, and us — these were auteur-driven, from the talent, the creative side.
    Jordan Hoffman Updated, EW.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Costco’s $10 Kirkland 5-Pocket Performance Pants are a duplicate of Lululemon’s $128 men’s ABC 5 Pocket Pants, which at least one person at your office is currently wearing.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 July 2025
  • Ensure data accuracy and completeness and identify where inconsistencies—such as incorrect formatting, missing data, duplicates and silos—occur.
    Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Carbon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbon. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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