homebuilt

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Recent Examples of homebuilt The crash is the second to involve a small, homebuilt plane in recent weeks in the Bay Area. Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homebuilt
Adjective
  • Yet there’s a relaxed comfort to dinner in the airy concrete-floored loft, starting with the Taiwanese sausage that arrives as an early bite, wedged into homemade brioche like a tiny hot dog and plucked up between two fingers.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Whistling Pie is a homemade album of acoustic ballads, inspired by his hero, the late British folk guitarist Bert Jansch.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike semiautomatic firearms, bolt-action rifles require manual cycling between shots, limiting the rate of fire to one round at a time.
    Amanda Castro Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • As manual, repetitive tasks are increasingly automated, the human element that people bring to the workplace will become more important than ever.
    Hanne Jesca Bax, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Getting those props was a matter of homespun ingenuity.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As the homespun sounds of early-2000s indie rock became mall-soundtrack fare, tastemakers took a new interest in rap, R&B, pop, and electronic music.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Homebuilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homebuilt. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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