Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feathering
Verb
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As his career skyrocketed, Chalamet spent years quietly training — aided by an expert on the sport, Diego Schaaf — by pulling a table-tennis setup along to productions ranging from Dune to Wonka.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Jan. 2026 -
Notre Dame didn’t mess around in pulling all that material together, looking like a program with a plan before the portal opened.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Extra-low dispersion glass eliminates color fringing from chromatic aberration and fully multi-coated optics boost brightness and contrast.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
25 Nov. 2025
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As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Someone’s braiding a piece of Shannon’s hair when a barrette falls out and onto the floor beneath the table.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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And as founders of Freedom Braiders, my daughter and I lead programs that teach the art of hair braiding and offer cognitive behavior classes in jails.—
Joanna Hernandez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Oct. 2025
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Has Alec been embroidering the truth?—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2025
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Hawley and a team of craftspeople worked across the globe embroidering, aging and tinting the costumes for the film.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Such rotting fruit from the forest floor contained higher concentrations of fermenting yeast and alcohol than the fruits hanging from trees.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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Even as students work longer hours to avoid borrowing, loans accumulate like a cloud hanging overhead.—
Liam McCusker,
Hartford Courant,
7 Jan. 2026
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Continue roasting, figuring about 15 minutes per pound.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
19 Dec. 2025
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As soon as he's been figuring everything out, he's been texting the QB room.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
18 Dec. 2025
Verb
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In one incident, video obtained by FOX News shows two masked men holding handguns chasing a screaming resident around his house.—
Landon Mion , Brooke Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Fátima Bosch grew up in Santiago de Teapa, Tabasco, and has been chasing her pageant dreams for years.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
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One is that there’s this centaur — half-horse, half-me — painting in my apartment.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Spanberger’s campaign had looped the clip in a string of attack ads painting her as combative and unprepared.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Feathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feathering. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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