as in high hat
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Recent Examples of hard hat
The tour operator provides a hard hat, knee pads, elbow pads, gloves, and a headlamp for each participant, but be sure to wear sturdy lace-up boots and long sleeves and pants.
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Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
Jo Brand squashes one of hers, David Baddiel tries to eat his, while Rose Matafeo and Ed Gamble rip theirs to shreds and Katy Wix overestimates the naturalism of holding a hard hat under one arm for an extended period of time.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
On July 31, a day before the highest beam was placed on the facility, Penner and Walton Penner tightened up hard hats and climbed rung-over-rung roughly 20 stories up the crane.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2025
What to Know Trump shared a Labor Day post on Truth Social on Monday afternoon, featuring an image of himself greeting a group of workers wearing white hard hats.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
Jo Brand squashes one of hers, David Baddiel tries to eat his, while Rose Matafeo and Ed Gamble rip theirs to shreds and Katy Wix overestimates the naturalism of holding a hard hat under one arm for an extended period of time.
—Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
On July 31, a day before the highest beam was placed on the facility, Penner and Walton Penner tightened up hard hats and climbed rung-over-rung roughly 20 stories up the crane.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2025
What to Know Trump shared a Labor Day post on Truth Social on Monday afternoon, featuring an image of himself greeting a group of workers wearing white hard hats.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 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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My dream is to be the Gary Oldman Dracula, with the gray suit, gray top hat and little purple glasses.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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In an era of 51st-state tensions, there’s something psychically fitting about Canada, America’s top hat, being used to reenact so many of America’s sins.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
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Investigators also found a baseball cap, red sweater, cargo shorts and a sock nearby but no documentation identifying the victim.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Unlike his predecessor, Nick Nurse, Rajaković doesn’t generally wear a baseball cap.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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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Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.—
Ingrid Harbo,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 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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Wilson was pictured standing next to the field and wearing a white cowboy hat and an LAFC jersey, smiling and cheering during the second half of the game.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The show wrapped up with Tonioli stripping down to a shiny gold tank top and cowboy hat.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Hard hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard%20hat. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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