as in institutions
a person who has long been associated with a place or activity
has been a fixture in the Republican Party for the last 30 years
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Recent Examples of fixtures
Project Angel Heart operates like a meal train on an industrial scale — down to the stainless steel fixtures of its commercial kitchen on the very northern edge of Denver.
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Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
Before Sunday’s fixtures, Sunderland sit second in the Premier League, two points behind leaders Arsenal and have the joint-third best defensive record.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
The same goes for light fixtures.
—Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
The new Air Force One will struggle to get off the ground with the burden of all that extra weight in gold bathroom fixtures.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT doesn’t fare any better, thanks to distortion in the objects on the kitchen counter and window, as well as its generation of multiple light fixtures.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Construction crews are currently painting, installing fixtures, cabinetry and the ceiling grid, and will soon lay the carpeting.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
However, Lanning could also use this as an opportunity to improve a running game that has at times been lacking, with more difficult fixtures against the likes of USC and Washington still to come over the next month or so.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Local stone and wood line the bathrooms, fitted with rain showers, matte black fixtures, and soaking tubs large enough for two.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
Before Sunday’s fixtures, Sunderland sit second in the Premier League, two points behind leaders Arsenal and have the joint-third best defensive record.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
The same goes for light fixtures.
—Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
The new Air Force One will struggle to get off the ground with the burden of all that extra weight in gold bathroom fixtures.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT doesn’t fare any better, thanks to distortion in the objects on the kitchen counter and window, as well as its generation of multiple light fixtures.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Construction crews are currently painting, installing fixtures, cabinetry and the ceiling grid, and will soon lay the carpeting.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
However, Lanning could also use this as an opportunity to improve a running game that has at times been lacking, with more difficult fixtures against the likes of USC and Washington still to come over the next month or so.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Local stone and wood line the bathrooms, fitted with rain showers, matte black fixtures, and soaking tubs large enough for two.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fixtures
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In practice, this meant building institutions that supported democratic and civil-society initiatives as well as directing aid across dozens of countries.—
Tetiana Kotelnykova,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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But unlike White, Leon thinks traditional finance institutions’ entrance into the cryptocurrency market could help counterbalance the effects of crypto-native players using massive amounts of leverage.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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Poddar meanwhile argued that his fiercely secular friend treated Hindu icons the same as all his other subjects.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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One of the key events is the launch of three special edition guitars that celebrate last year’s 70th birthday of two pop culture icons – both the Fender Stratocaster and Godzilla were born in 1954.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Fixtures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixtures. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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