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as in defect
something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing
some feel that the planned skyscraper would be an excrescency on the city's low-rise skyline
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excrescency
Noun
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This functional imaging approach can reveal cancers that are otherwise hidden in dense breast tissue, which appears white on mammograms—the same color as many tumors.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
6 June 2025 -
It can be caused by adrenal tumors, long-term steroid use, or conditions affecting the pituitary gland (a gland in your brain that controls hormone production).—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
6 June 2025
Noun
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What a buyer might find as a major defect could be different than what a seller finds as one.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 June 2025
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Operational Efficiency And Cost Reduction Beyond core back-office tasks, AI bots are streamlining operations across industries: • Manufacturing: A process-mining AI tool helped one leading manufacturer automate quality-check handoffs, cutting defect investigation time by 60%.—
Leonard Martin Schmedding,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Coastal friends, start with fresh jumbo lump crabmeat.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
26 May 2025
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Key Takeaways Warts form a hard lump, while skin tags are soft and often on a stalk.—
Lana Barhum,
Verywell Health,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Ukraine invasion — explained The bruising artillery battle in Ukraine has left a scar that is visible from space Lewis also saw no evidence that Israel had struck at tunnels deep beneath a nearby mountain.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
13 June 2025
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The Director informs her that the scar is the mark of a rival group of killers with which the Ruska Roma maintains a permanent mutual pact of nonaggression, and orders Eve to stand down.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
5 June 2025
Noun
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These two groups of turfgrass have significantly different periods of active growth.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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But Williams will have to put in the time to make gradual, significant growth.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Their backs are a mixture of cream dots, orange-ish speckles and brown blotches.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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These are more typically animals with stripes instead of blotches, missing patterns, and similar.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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“Excrescency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excrescency. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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