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Recent Examples of ironing
The international community uses five basic symbols for washing (wash tub), drying (square), bleaching (triangle), ironing (iron), and dry cleaning (circle).
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2025
Using ironing cloths and a few leaves leftover from raking your yard, iron the leaves onto 8-by-8-inch squares of wax paper.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2025
Using ironing cloths and a few leaves leftover from raking your yard, iron the leaves onto 8-by-8-inch squares of wax paper.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ironing
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Putin is lashing out by intensifying assaults on civilian targets, especially in the capital city of Kyiv.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Goldschmidt, lashing through the unhittable delivery, just stood in dismay.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
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Attendees enjoy live music, professional and instructional fly tying, casting clinics and demos.—
Laura Daily,
Denver Post,
3 June 2026
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That would be their 7-foot-4 unicorn Victor Wembanyama, who is 8-for-11 in the clutch so far this postseason, including his game-tying 28-footer in overtime of Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
3 June 2026
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But a binding point of view remains frustratingly elusive, suggesting the material might have been better served by a three-part limited series.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2026
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Such black holes would be extremely hard to spot and thus might account for some or all of the universe’s dark matter—an invisible, lightless something that seems to act like gravitational glue, binding together galaxies and galaxy clusters.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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The Knicks are back out in front, as Jalen Brunson is balling despite hobbling after hurting his right knee and left ankle.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
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That late-game run––forty-four points to the Cavs’ eleven––was as soul-crushing to Cleveland as the apparition of Willis Reed, hobbling to center court, had been to the Lakers fifty-six years ago.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
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Locally, these priorities have taken shape as the SHIPS for America Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at modernizing domestic shipyards, supporting a business corridor along Interstate 80, and securing funding for climate resiliency projects to counteract sea-level rise.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
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Katrina Talamantes ran unopposed in the 3rd District, securing re-election to a third term.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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Video shared on Facebook by comedian Mike Goldstein shows the man appearing to stumble out of the restroom while still fastening his belt.—
Christopher Edwards,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
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Lyonne, who was reportedly boarding a red-eye flight to New York City on Delta Air Lines, was allegedly escorted off the plane after failing to follow flight instructions, per the outlet, which included closing her laptop and fastening her seatbelt before takeoff.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Baltimore region has suffered too long from underinvestment in transit services — which is shackling economic growth, harming the environment and constraining quality of life for families.—
Brandon Scott,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Feb. 2026
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Men are often the ones in those ICE facilities who are shackling and chaining detainees.—
Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
7 Feb. 2026
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Interestingly, the modular design allows operators to rapidly assemble, connect, and scale up their power capacity by stacking or chaining additional units.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 May 2026
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On day two, hacking teams were no less successful, chaining together three new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange in order to achieve the holy grail of SYSTEM-level remote code execution.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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“Ironing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironing. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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