Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooplike
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The discovery offers a powerful way to give waste plastics a second life as high-performance materials, advancing both a circular economy and next-generation clean technologies.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Ground zero for two family weddings and several SAG-AFTRA events during the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress’s ownership, the light gray and white-trimmed structure is tucked away behind 20-foot privacy hedges and double gates and fronted by a semi-circular driveway.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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The science behind the glass sphere design The spherical shape is more than a design choice.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Acording to the researchers, this is the first time supression has been observed in a spherical tokamak.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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The country will see another total solar eclipse in 2027, as well as an annular solar eclipse—wherein the moon doesn’t totally cover the sun, creating a ring of fire in the sky—in 2028.—
Maya Silver,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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Related: What's the difference between a total solar eclipse and an annular solar eclipse?—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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One thing that particularly drew his interest was the idea of discoidal aircraft – what are more popularly known as flying saucers.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2025
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Open star clusters are much less dense than their globular counterparts and a pair of binoculars with a lower magnification allows for a more comprehensive view.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.—
Nina-Sophia Miralles,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Some target the hair follicles or scalp specifically—like alopecia areata and discoid lupus erythematosus—while others (such as thyroid disease) affect another part of the body and can cause hair loss as one of many symptoms, Dr. Lo Sicco explains.—
Krissy Brady,
SELF,
5 Mar. 2024
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Opah are discoid fish, meaning they are shaped like large discs.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
15 July 2021
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“Hooplike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooplike. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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