Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embank
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Media conglomerates Disney and Paramount have also made strategic financial decisions to win more favorable treatment from Trump and his administration.—
Allan Smith,
NBC news,
14 Aug. 2025 -
The vision of the commission is clear in a diagram for the War Department that sought to streamline the bureaucracy, conglomerating the existing 18 divisions into eight.—
Laura Ellyn Smith,
The Conversation,
9 May 2025
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Nov. 2025
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Higher elevations from West Virginia through the border of North Carolina and Tennessee can expect accumulating snow.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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The cell, which measured eleven and a half feet by nine feet, contained a cot, a sink, a mirror, and a bucket for waste, which was collected by Hsieh’s friend, who also brought in food daily.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Fort Worth police plan an investigation to collect and review the facts and the circumstances of the case.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Nov. 2025
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Competitive sections for features, documentaries, and shorts each comprise 16 titles, while retrospectives, restorations, and regional premieres are grouped into three out-of-competition strands of 24 films.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Content of a wide age range is grouped and deemed ‘appropriate for children’ without restriction of the option thereof.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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In a cultural milieu in which cool now amounts to assembling the most cunning collage of references, Rosalía has given her stylish postmodernism a powerful bass note of purpose.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2025
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According to data assembled by the National Association of Realtors, the average age of a first-time homebuyer was 38 in 2024.—
Michael Nied,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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But we're lumped in all of that.—
Tanisha Bhat,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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The union said Starbucks is unfairly lumping together various economic proposals from the union to arrive at those pay raise figures.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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That evening, his team-mates at Bottesford gathered in their clubhouse following a 2-2 draw at home to Golcar United, where there had been a moment of reflection ahead of kick-off.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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Officers also gathered at HCA-Florida Kendall Hospital.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, and the songs amassed almost 300 million global streams.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Elsewhere, Blackrock Neurotech has implanted over 50 people with brain chips, and boasts of amassing thousands of patient--days without adverse events.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Embank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embank. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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