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grays

verb

variants also greys
present tense third-person singular of gray
as in flowers

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  1. flowers
  2. gets on
  3. evolves
  4. advances
  5. blooms
  6. ages
  7. gets along
Verb
  • This plant flowers year-round and, like all abutilon cultivars, is not water needy.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of flowers
Verb
  • Exactly how hot your hair dryer gets on the lowest and highest setting, however, can vary from brand to brand.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Ask any company that quietly panics every time its founder gets on a plane.
    — Shann Biglione, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of gets on
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  • Companies that can combine proven technologies with their own intellectual property, optimize the resulting architecture for their application and move efficiently from concept to production can respond faster as the market evolves.
    — Iri Trashanski, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Upon arrival at that house, January realizes a former classmate — and another successful author, Gus (Schwarzenegger) — lives next door, prompting an unlikely friendship that evolves into a romance of their own.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of evolves
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  • Progression opens access to more content as the player advances.
    — Michal Rahamim, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The company said its safety case will continue to evolve as the project advances through DOE review and subsequent regulatory steps.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of advances
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  • There, wisteria blooms on trellises, raspberries ripen on bushes, a cold-plunge pool commands sweeping views of downtown Manhattan—and a chicken coop looms in the corner.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Still, Under Story is about the devastation of a life that breaks down and the miracle of the life that blooms from those ashes.
    — Chloe Benjamain, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of blooms
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  • For Sung, the challenge was finding continuity in a character who ages from a lovestruck young woman into a wife, mother and stepmother across shifting timelines and an uncertain grip on her own past.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Teens ages 13 through 17 can ride, although an adult must accompany them for the entire trip.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of ages
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  • Her incompatibility is expertly and efficiently illustrated in an immediate fallout with Gordon’s brash but lovable brother, Heavy (Justin Rosniak), who Ash gets along with swimmingly.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
  • John teaches at a small, leafy college by day, while by night working on a book about rationalist philosopher Spinoza and dating his beautiful colleague Becca (Sofia Boutella), a professor of psychology who has a son with whom John gets along well.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of gets along
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“Grays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grays. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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