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Recent Examples of hard hat
Security cameras capture a masked man wearing glasses and a hard hat spraying security cameras with blue paint inside a Hillsboro, Oregon, Intel parking garage.
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Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
His hard hat bears months of nicks and scrapes, testament to the massive transformation underway in the 25,000-square-foot former food court at the Shops at Rivercenter mall in downtown San Antonio.
—Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2026
The mayor donned a hard hat and boarded a crane lift to check out the vinyl wrap being applied to the Janet Gray Hayes Rotunda on Thursday morning.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
With his dad’s old hard hat atop his head, and covered in cinema-grade grease, Beard read for the show.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Dec. 2025
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Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
His hard hat bears months of nicks and scrapes, testament to the massive transformation underway in the 25,000-square-foot former food court at the Shops at Rivercenter mall in downtown San Antonio.
—Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2026
The mayor donned a hard hat and boarded a crane lift to check out the vinyl wrap being applied to the Janet Gray Hayes Rotunda on Thursday morning.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
With his dad’s old hard hat atop his head, and covered in cinema-grade grease, Beard read for the show.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard hat
Noun
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Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.—
Adam Shell,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2022
Noun
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Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2024
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Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Vulture,
14 May 2021
Noun
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In a black sequined dress, a top hat, and a pink boa-type shawl, Drescher was very much dressed for the occasion.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
4 Apr. 2026
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Her role as Zidler, a top hat-wearing manager of the club that serves as the play's central backdrop, marks a Broadway debut for the rapper.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, accompanied by a DHS video team, was on site that day wearing a baseball cap and a black ballistic vest.—
A.C. Thompson,
ProPublica,
14 Apr. 2026
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The image posted by the president Sunday night showed Trump wearing a biblical-style robe and laying hands on a bedridden man as light emanates from his fingers — while a soldier, a nurse, a praying woman and a bearded man in a baseball cap all look on admiringly.—
Will Weissert,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.—
Ostap Kin,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Mar. 2022
Noun
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The arrest has drawn widespread attention, as the child had just returned home from preschool with his father and was wearing a Spider Man backpack and blue stocking cap with bunny ears when detained.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
31 Jan. 2026
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Shaped like a teddy bear, the cup also has a green Starbucks stocking cap and a straw.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
Noun
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The 58-year-old actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje had never worn a cowboy hat, ridden a horse, or seen more than a couple episodes of Euphoria before being offered the part of cowboy crime lord Alamo Brown.—
Molly Lambert,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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Most knew him only as Jeff, the guy with the cowboy hat and American flag.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Hard hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard%20hat. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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