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hedge

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verb

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Recent Examples of hedge
Noun
Unlike nearly any other college football field in the South, a living green border of hedges frame Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium. Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025 Unlike the past two dramas, this one ditches the lords, ladies, kings, queens, dragons, and dire wolves for the more humble story of a wandering hedge knight and his diminutive squire. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
This gives customers a chance to find value and hedge pre-game wagers. Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 And while analysts expect Nvidia — the undisputed leader in AI chips — to remain OpenAI’s core infrastructure partner, the ChatGPT maker is now also hedging its bets with its AMD deal. Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hedge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hedge
Noun
  • That was a 109-mph missile over the center field fence, much higher than its intended target and hundreds of feet farther.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The cost to repair his wooden fence was between $4,000 and $5,000, Boyd said.
    Lauren De Young, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So, that was a good learning experience and a humbling experience of being on the outside and trying to weasel my way in.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
  • So if an extra (and questionable) ingredient weasels its way into the formula, and the supplement hits the market, there's not much the FDA can do besides send companies a warning letter to recall the supplement.
    Julia Forbes, Wired News, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The site has housed many historical figures over the years, from Queen Margaret to Mary, Queen of Scots.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The company houses other productions, not least an upcoming reimagination of Dick Van Dyke family classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is in the works with Amazon MGM Studios.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On a recent day, a patron drank a Guinness at the bar amid walls are covered in funeral notices from people who had come for a drink after saying that final goodbye.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Kimpton Armory Hotel — Montana The Art Deco building in Bozeman was originally constructed in 1941 to serve as the Montana National Guard’s armory, featuring 18-inch-thick walls, a rifle range, a soundproof music room and space for military vehicles.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The earthquake shook at a depth of just 4 miles, with its epicenter roughly 9 miles west of Johannesburg.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Nearly two years later, there’s still evidence at the crime scene that shook this small island country — ash on jutting rocks, melted scraps of plastic and fabric scattered in the verdant shrubbery where wild dogs stalk giant lizards.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Compared to the popular Cassia Lace Up option, the Cassia Nodo is more of a classic pump style, covering the sides of the foot and enclosing the heel.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Southern California Edison, the utility that operates the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, has released to the public some 1,749 images taken by robotic cameras during inspections of canisters enclosed in casks that store radioactive waste at the plant.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By deploying solvers on scalable cloud platforms, firms avoid the need for expensive local hardware, lowering barriers for CAE adoption among businesses.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Magazine collaging, in particular, is enjoying a revitalization for adults seeking a low-barrier entry into mixed-media art.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The result is a geomagnetic storm that amplifies the ionospheric and radio disruptions caused by flares and saturates the radiation belts surrounding Earth to such an extent that new belts can suddenly form.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Air raid alerts were in place in Kyiv and surrounding districts for around an hour and a half before the air force called them off shortly after midnight on Sunday.
    Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Hedge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hedge. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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