makes

present tense third-person singular of make
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as in estimates
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement I make that to be about six feet long

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as in seems
to give the impression of being the family made merry despite their financial worries

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as in shuts
chiefly dialect to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening make the gate when ye leave

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Recent Examples of makes The system makes hands-free upright mobility available to eligible wheelchair users living with spinal cord injuries at any level, who can manually operate the device’s controller. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026 The part that makes the idea harder to categorize may also be the part people remember. Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026 Damian Lewis makes a cameo as himself, or at least a version who’s dead set on writing a treatise on dog meat; Harriet Walter plays the long-suffering daughter of a romance author determined to get her mother’s smut some prestige. Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026 Yet for most fans, his voice has been little more than background noise, an acapella Muzak that only gets noticed when Araujo makes a mistake. Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026 However, if cashmere isn’t your knit of choice, Gap makes a stellar 100-percent cotton sweater that always goes viral and sells out every fall and COS’s Rounded Wool Crewneck features a thicker weave and more structured silhouette. Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026 The growing power of artificial intelligence makes the potential fallout from cyberattacks greater. Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2026 The center makes the protection calls, and often, zone runs cut vertically toward the center. Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Plus, don’t miss out on handy finds like this handheld vacuum that makes quick work of small messes in tight spaces and an insulated Yeti tumbler that keeps water cold all day long. Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for makes
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  • Hope produces hype But these tendencies leave us open to exploitation by companies that want our money.
    Jonathan Fahey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The shoes appears to be the lamb leather iteration, although the Italian label also produces the style in white silk satin.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Dillon wanders through his shelves, scrutinizing works by Walter Benjamin, Joan Didion, or James Baldwin and seeing, at a granular level, how writing achieves such profound effects.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
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  • The companies open new revenue streams, because solving new problems creates new markets.
    Sumeet Salwan, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • An escrow account automates awareness and creates a signal through your monthly payment.
    Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
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  • Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson agreed that whether or not Johnson fulfills his pledge to transparently outline the projection will prove critical.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • This fulfills a key demand for nearly 30 percent of consumers.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026
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  • And most of them did not choose the economic arrangement that compels them to burn that carbon, that splits labor and leisure in this way, that organizes work and pleasure around certain kinds of mobility.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The deal compels Facebook and Instagram to adopt new child-safety rules, including daily time caps, school-hour notification bans, stronger age checks and expanded parental controls aimed at harmful content.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
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  • Felix estimates attendance at his church has dipped about 20%.
    Lauren Costantino September 19, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The International Energy Agency estimates that global data center electricity consumption will roughly double from 485 TWh in 2025 to around 950 TWh by 2030.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
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  • Marie painstakingly builds the abbey into a regional power center to which notables must pay their respects.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Consistency builds recognition; nuance builds relevance, because copy-and-paste is a function, not a go-to-market strategy.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
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  • Now my guy is stuck in an insane asylum with a doctor who seems downright giddy to try out some electroshock therapy.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Write, make something, tell the story differently, or simply notice what now seems funny that once felt enormous.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026

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“Makes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/makes. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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