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Recent Examples of Synonyms for embank
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The Korea Times reported that the alliance, made up of private equity firm MBK Partners and conglomerate YoongPoong, said the plan was designed for company Chairman Choi Yun-beom to hold on to management control.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
16 Dec. 2025 -
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
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Points will accumulate for 10 straight races in the playoffs, so technically a driver could clinch a championship before the final race was ever run.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Jan. 2026
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This friction causes the surface of the lens to accumulate and store a large amount of negative static electricity.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2026
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The following burglaries are from reports collected from the Little Rock Police Department.—
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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Since then, she's collected 45 years' worth of passport stamps, crossing off destinations like Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Thailand, Bhutan, Morocco, and Kenya on her travel wish list.—
Stephanie Gray,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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Their work laid the foundations for today’s nuclear propulsion concepts and led to several ideas for INRs, which can be grouped into two categories.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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Instead, designers are favoring a few consistent shapes, aligned and grouped just so.—
Lew Sichelman,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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The plane’s fuselage and extra-long wing section were trucked separately from the cannery to Dutch Flats, where the aircraft was finally assembled and fine-tuned.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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The $30 million, 110-foot Pegasus arrived in South Florida in pieces from China and Germany and assembled on site in 2014.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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The Knights have won two straight PCAC titles and three of the last four since the California Community College Athletic Association lumped all the San Diego and Imperial County schools into the same conference.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Another, signed in June 2025, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, which lumped criticism of Israel in with antisemitism more generally.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Jan. 2026
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On Friday night, around 100 community members gathered on North Howard Street to pay respects to Renee Good while calling for justice.—
Andrew Adeolu,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Hundreds gathered near the Canopy Hotel, a Hilton property, Friday evening, according to a statement from the Minneapolis Police Department.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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De'Anthony Melton scored 19 points, Podziemski had 14 and Gary Payton II added 12 points to go with eight rebounds as the Warriors' reserves amassed 66 points.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Her kids have amassed a combination of over 25,000 miles so far and are all still under age 7.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Embank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embank. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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