Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fag
Verb
  • Many prominent energy and hardware startups have faltered at this critical juncture, struggling to transition from promising prototypes to reliable performance in real-world settings at scale.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • But almost six months into his second mandate, his administration has struggled to keep the cost of the staple down.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • The deceased woman was also wearing a black necklace with a cross that family said belonged to DiNapoli, according to court documents.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
  • The bride wore a guipure high-neck lace gown embellished with crystals and complete with a nine-foot-long train.
    Sarah Title, People.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Finally, gradually acclimatizing workers to laboring in extreme heat, instead of expecting people to work full-steam on the first few blazing hot days of the summer.
    Terri Gerstein, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
  • But his parents, Mexican immigrants in the Bracero program, labored in Woodland fields with no means to send Estrada, one of 15 children, to college.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • In that incident, a rooftop gunman fired at Trump from roughly 150 yards away, grazing his right ear and killing one attendee, Corey Comperatore, before Secret Service agents shot the attacker dead.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
  • The legislation didn’t kill Biden-era tax credits for manufacturers, as some had feared.
    Aarian Marshall, Wired News, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • This technique works especially well when readers are swimming in too many possibilities.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • During his first term in office, Trump wasn’t exactly kind to Meghan Markle, who was a working member of the royal family at the time.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • While others exhaust themselves and their budgets staying open for ghosts and insomniacs, smart operators perfect their performance when the audience is there.
    Elie Y. Katz, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • According to a report released by Social Security trustees last month, once the trust fund is exhausted, payroll taxes would only be sufficient to cover about 77 percent of scheduled benefits.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • Founded in 886 by King Alfred the Great, The Royal Mint strives to marry its illustrious history with innovations in sustainable sourcing of precious metals.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Dunham, in turn, strives to find new ways of expressing the emotion, through disarming dialogue and affecting tableaux.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • There’s not been enough rest on the ball, keeping it and pinning teams in (their defensive third) and tiring them out.
    Braidon Nourse, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Runs in them were short, quick bursts, relishing the feeling of power transferring through my feet but being careful not to tire and start clunking.
    Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 23 June 2025
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“Fag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fag. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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