Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curlicuing
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Head for South Bank—alive with street performers, riverside joggers, and the sweet smell of roasted nuts curling from pop-up stalls.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025 -
Erdman said most models show Gabrielle eventually curling northward into the Atlantic.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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The hilarious clip, shared on Instagram on Friday under the username @mostly_ghostly1, shows the poster lying by the edge of the bed, almost falling off of it, while her rescue pup, Mookie, sleeps right in the middle, snuggled up to her husband.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Allen Frank was recovering from complications from falling off the roof while cleaning the siding of the couple’s home in Rich Fountain in October.—
Bram Sable-Smith,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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Less than 12 seconds later, the vehicle was off the runway, but the plane had already started circling the airport.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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Sewell's been absolute granite at tackle, and now he's got Micah circling the matchups on his calendar.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Doctors struggle to access complete patient histories, researchers spend months cleaning inconsistent datasets, and hospitals face spiraling costs just to keep outdated systems running.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The waveforms of those signals serve as an audio fingerprint—in this case, evidence for two black holes spiraling inward toward each other and merging in a massive collision event, sending powerful shock waves across spacetime.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement The sweeping ban threatened to upend Facebook’s recent content monetization launch in Nepal, which could help Nepali creators earn money, and also threatened to impact other Nepali businesses that depend on social-media platforms.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Mets had a 103-62 mark after sweeping the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS.—
Chuck Murr,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Demerzel gasps, and for once Day isn’t preening in the mirror but bowing his head.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Theron also has Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey bowing next summer.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Curlicuing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curlicuing. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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