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Recent Examples of dimple
IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Ken was a slender, dark-haired, bespectacled man with a receding hairline and dimples.
—Sheila Heti, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
From some untrodden, internal place, a visceral memory stirred, of holding up the page with Felicity pictured vertically in the centerfold, the midsection of her floral everyday dress dimpled by the magazine’s staples.
—Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
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Noun
That sharp tip rests against a shallow dimple in a small steel plate screwed to the mast.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Ken was a slender, dark-haired, bespectacled man with a receding hairline and dimples.
—Sheila Heti, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
Verb
Nearby a flat boulder cloaked in the shade of the yawning oak trees was dimpled with grinding holes created by nameless Native Americans, decades, or even centuries, ago.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
From some untrodden, internal place, a visceral memory stirred, of holding up the page with Felicity pictured vertically in the centerfold, the midsection of her floral everyday dress dimpled by the magazine’s staples.
—Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimple
Noun
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Nearly the entire musical, which is now being revived at Lincoln Center, therefore unfolds with our hero stuck fast inside one of the earth’s narrow pockets, his dwindling awareness reaching out toward the glittering, subterranean volumes all around him.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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One fan, Richard Jakeman, reaches into his pocket and produces a handful of old tickets.—
Rob Tanner,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Crystal Palace’s confidence has been dented of late, thanks to heavy defeats by Manchester City and Newcastle United.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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The recent policy signals out of the White House have dented the safe-haven status of U.S. Treasurys.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But today, the most important political cleft is not the fading distinction between right and left, but the rising conflict between liberal and illiberal, democratic and autocratic.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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Many birth defects are treatable; orofacial clefts and some heart defects, for example, can be corrected with surgery.—
Almut Winterstein,
The Conversation,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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O’Connor beat everybody down the ice, curled at the left faceoff circle, then fired the puck past Dallas goaltender Jake Oettinger’s stick side for a 1-0 Avs lead.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
27 Apr. 2025
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Her nails were curled and misshapen, and had even started to grow back into her feet.—
Alina Hartounian,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The scientists, led by fossil track specialist Conner Bennett, used advanced 3D imaging techniques to identify and analyze four sets of vertebrate trace fossils, including impressions left behind by prehistoric birds, mammals, lizards and invertebrates.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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Chido Obi has made such an impression in fleeting senior cameos that not registering the 17-year-old for the Europa League could be regarded as an oversight.—
Mark Critchley,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Curled under a rock was the tiniest snake ever recorded — slender as spaghetti, small enough to coil on a U.S. quarter.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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It’s been two years since the devastating season 1 finale of The Last of Us, HBO’s adaptation of the 2013 Naughty Dog video game that coiled its tendrils around our throats and yanked us into a bleak apocalypse.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Pygmy marmosets use their teeth to gouge holes in trees that secrete gum, or resin—not to be confused with sap, which runs through a tree’s vascular system.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
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All these gems are embedded in a wooden shell made of oak, sculpted with a gouge, just like the artisans who craft the cognac barrels.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Industry leaders understand that quick, transparent action in the face of controversy is often the difference between a reputational crisis that is managed and one that spirals.—
Darius Fisher,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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With Meg’s Catholic parents due any moment, this family dinner soon spirals into a hilarious disaster.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Dimple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimple. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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