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Opt for a vanity that works with your existing decor and has furniture-like details like cane, fluting, and turned legs.
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Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2025
The Perpetual 1908 is housed in a 39mm yellow gold case with a domed and fluted bezel.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
In 75 minutes – in fluting, soaring voices, to music by Jan Ekedahl – 35 singers carry us to Stockholm and back.
—Maggie Lewis Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
The points were fluted and came in various sizes, often used on projectiles like spears.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2025
The Perpetual 1908 is housed in a 39mm yellow gold case with a domed and fluted bezel.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
In 75 minutes – in fluting, soaring voices, to music by Jan Ekedahl – 35 singers carry us to Stockholm and back.
—Maggie Lewis Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
The points were fluted and came in various sizes, often used on projectiles like spears.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flute
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The lights will shine until mid-January before being taken down and milled into lumber that will be donated to Habitat for Humanity.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Oct. 2025
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Roughly 60 of us were gathered in an industrial event space on graduation day at Harvard, looking eight floors down from an outdoor deck at the students milling below in caps and gowns.—
Nick Stern,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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The nonprofit filed a lawsuit in June 2024 seeking to block the use of federal covid-19 relief funds for the project.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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The investigation is ongoing, and additional charges may be filed as evidence is processed, police said.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Nov. 2025
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Planning laws also resulted in the north and east faces of the tower being chamfered, presumably to ensure views and sunlight weren't blocked in key areas.—
Adam Williams,
New Atlas,
16 Apr. 2025
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The body of the A6 looks as solid as a block of granite that's been chiseled and chamfered to knock off the sharp edges.—
Fred M.H. Gregory,
Car and Driver,
12 July 2023
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Each time the oceans offered up the right environment, evolution sent out another turtle to graze.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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The strongest sustained wind speed in the Atlantic on record occurred in 1980’s Hurricane Allen, which hit 190 mph, nearly grazing the researchers’ suggested Category 6.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Flute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flute. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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