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Recent Examples of curlicue
Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2025
Explosions emit curlicue swirls in addition to CGI smoke.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
The cutwork curlicues, stars, and trees on the border of this runner definitely deliver the wow factor.
—Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
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Noun
And one of my personal favorites, a fiery abstract piece in Iñaki’s private dining room, was fashioned from curlicue cones of vibrant recycled paper.
—Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2025
Explosions emit curlicue swirls in addition to CGI smoke.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
Outside, winding paths through gardens and woods lead to site-specific installations, like Eleven Minute Line, a land-art piece by Maya Lin that curlicues through a field of cows.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
The cutwork curlicues, stars, and trees on the border of this runner definitely deliver the wow factor.
—Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curlicue
Noun
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Emergency heat turns off the normal heat pump and warms your home through heating coils, according to Precision Comfort Systems.—
Amanda McCoy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Jan. 2026
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Inside The Lot at Formosa, Young’s hair, once a mullet with stark blond streaks, was now colored black and curled in coils down her back.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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On warm afternoons, residents float, unwind or gather along the edge, while kids loop through again and again.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Feb. 2026
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Instead of setting Orion up for an insertion into lunar orbit, the free-return trajectory will loop the spacecraft once around the moon on a figure-eight flight path back to Earth, ensuring the crew's return regardless of Orion's propulsion status, should unexpected issues crop up during flight.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One trick for longer-lasting curl on your eyelashes is to heat up your eyelash curler using a blow dryer.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
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Robbie wore her hair down, parted in the center and styled in loose curls that began around her jawline.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Libya’s central bank is suing Zimbabwe’s finance minister and national oil company for more than $100 million, the latest development in a spiraling debt crisis that’s bedeviled the southern African nation for a quarter of a century.—
William Clowes,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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Things quickly spiral out of control when secrets are exposed and guns start blazing.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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To set expectations, this isn't a cheesecake-like swirl.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
31 Jan. 2026
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Inevitably, Big Ant soon comes crashing back down to Earth and the swirl of anger and sorrow that await him there; inevitably, Lil Ant and Lozita are forced to face his unhappiness, and figure out how to react.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The living room has a curving staircase on one side and French doors opening to a dining area on the other.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
30 Jan. 2026
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Hallie Henley Sims inherited her own grandmother’s curved back settee and chose to keep the original orange velvet upholstery intact.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Its twists are as shocking as those in a conventional thriller, and Cretton is a master of selling emotions and entire character arcs with a single shot.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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But a huge twist reveals that Kilmartin’s cousin Michael Stirling—who becomes a love interest for Francesca in the later novels—has been gender-swapped to Michaela.—
Sophie Hanson,
StyleCaster,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Stellarators use magnets with complicated shapes circling the outside of the system’s vacuum vessel to create all the magnetic fields needed to confine the fusion plasma.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Artemis 2 astronauts won't be landing, but will instead circle the moon on a 10-day trip to test systems and hardware for future expeditions to the surface.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Curlicue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curlicue. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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