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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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Hurricane Fiona pummeled Puerto Rico in September 2022 as a Category 1 storm, lashing once more a power grid that hadn’t been rebuilt from Hurricane Maria.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 June 2026
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Lately, though, the president has upset religious conservatives by posting a Christ-like image of himself online as well as lashing out at Pope Leo and the Vatican.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
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South Korea and Mexico faced off in September ahead of the World Cup, tying 2-2 in Nashville.—
Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Mahomes was flushed right but managed to get off a deep pass across his body to Hill for a 48-yard completion that set up the game-tying touchdown.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
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But his rival, Cepeda, has urged voters to wait for the final, binding count.—
Ines Capdevila,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
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Regulators should commission an independent validation using their own supervisory data before treating these figures as the basis for binding calibration decisions.—
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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This unequal setup ensures that migrants and refugees remain contained in the countries least equipped to host them, which only works when aid functions as the grease that keeps the system hobbling along.—
Kelsey Norman,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
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The consequences ranged from hobbling Reconstruction to hastening the end of the Ottoman Empire to poisonous deflation, and the blundering response by governments helped shape the modern world.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
6 June 2026
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The move, aimed at securing Finland’s collective defense, roughly doubled NATO’s border with Russia.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
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But when your livelihood depends on securing your next contract, raising concerns can feel incredibly difficult.—
Emma Pringle,
Deadline,
17 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 24 Jun. 2026.
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