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Recent Examples of dewdropTry your hand at clear builder gel with simple waves and dewdrops.—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 29 May 2026 The pair also collaborated on an orange-and-gold dewdrop installation over the stairway and the glimmering waterfall sculpture in the three-story courtyard.—Christine Muhlke, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025 At that time Litoff was a dewdrop and in the caucus race, while Wei was a duck and dewdrop.—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025 By dewdrops flare beauty in the morning Until an army of squash bugs land
And eat, then drag their bellies
From the carnage—
Field mice chew their way
Into the house.—Joy Harjo, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 Alsop took a painterly approach to Mahler’s many details — birdsong and bells, dewdrop harps, the lowing moo of a tuba.—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023 There are more than 100 varieties of shrubs like ceanothus, also known as California lilac with its luscious clusters of blue, purple or white blooms, and red-limbed manzanita, which can grow as a groundcover, tall bush or small tree with sweet clusters of dewdrop-type flowers.—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
Despite taking our holiday in late April, the start of the wet season, we were blessed with perfect weather—temperatures oscillated between a comfortable 70 and 80 degrees and there wasn't a raindrop in sight.
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Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
8 June 2026
Whether to protect from flies or to savor the sound of raindrops on a summer evening without getting drenched, covered spaces keep you comfortable amidst nature's disruptions.
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Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
13 May 2026
Much of that styling seems a very deliberate choice, likely meant to grab attention in a market in which the timelessly curvaceous form of the teardrop has become all too commonplace.
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C.C. Weiss
May 28,
New Atlas,
28 May 2026
Bright teardrop earrings hang from metal tins filled with Japanese cooling beads.