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Recent Examples of futon
The West Elm Booker futon is a chameleon.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Mattress Firm also carries furniture, including folding guest beds, daybeds, futons and dog beds.
—Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
The millennials had no money and no career direction—taking up serving and bartending jobs at local restaurants to make ends meet while crashing on her parents’ futon.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
Among the goods: Buddha statues, dreamcatchers, handmade soap, a vintage wooden cash register, futons and other furniture.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2025
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Mattress Firm also carries furniture, including folding guest beds, daybeds, futons and dog beds.
—Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
The millennials had no money and no career direction—taking up serving and bartending jobs at local restaurants to make ends meet while crashing on her parents’ futon.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
Among the goods: Buddha statues, dreamcatchers, handmade soap, a vintage wooden cash register, futons and other furniture.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for futon
Noun
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Moss-colored chaise longues in the living area, piled with pillows and wool blankets, are perfectly positioned to take in the view, as are the four-poster beds with wool-blend mattresses and willowy gauzy curtains.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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Less than two weeks after releasing Printer’s Devil, the COVID-19 lockdown began; the barely used tour backdrop still hangs over a mattress soundproofing their drum kit.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Inside, there’s an austere bedstead, ladder-back chairs, a cast-iron stove, and a wooden pegboard running along the walls—all sourced from a village near Albany.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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The substantial rails are inspired by 20th-century iron bedsteads, but the color pop is very much a modern twist.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The sweet shop used cardboard as a liner in the one-door display cooler and on the pallet storing dry goods for sale.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
January 30,
Sacbee.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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In a typical winter, the store would have up to four different kinds of deicing salt, 20 pallets or more, with each pallet holding 50 or more bags.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This train-car-style rover, run by Natural Habitat Adventure, has private bunk rooms and observation decks to watch for the aurora and polar bears, with bear safaris by day, too.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Outside,
27 Jan. 2026
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Few things shake the confidence of a person like crawling to the top bunk of a quivering bed frame, your feet wrapping uncomfortably along the frail metal rungs of the ladder.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The bed is surrounded by almost 360 degrees of glass, and schools of fish, octopus and squid regularly travel by (at night, dim lights are activated to attract nocturnal marine life).—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
28 Jan. 2026
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Today, his office oversees full-service patrol, investigations, warrant and civil divisions, a 400-bed facility and nearly 200 employees.—
Angela George,
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Choose a deluxe cabin for the full crew, which comes with either two queen beds or a queen bed and a pull-out sofa, sleeping up to four people.—
Jenny Willden,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
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Like a suspiciously cheap sofa or a $20 bike helmet, shoes that deviate significantly from standard pricing raise eyebrows.—
Maggie Slepian,
Outside,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Futon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/futon. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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