materials

plural of material

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Recent Examples of materials All of which can affect the materials, leading to wrinkles, damage, and more. Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025 City officials are now negotiating to have the mound sampled for hazardous materials, to narrow their options for moving it. Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 16 Mar. 2025 Interior designers weigh in on the bedding materials, colors, and textures to refresh your room with this year. Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025 Candidates were asked if the school board should restrict education materials. Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025 Powerful rotors and lighter materials are used to build the robot and give it substantial strength. Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2025 The petrochemical facilities that produce plastics and their component materials can also present pollution threats to neighboring communities and emit large amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025 For instance, if tariffs are expected to rise, businesses may stock up on materials today. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025 But Stanford University just made a real breakthrough by proposing the use of strikingly simple materials such as rocks. Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for materials
Noun
  • Besides artistically captured photographs that show human life around the world, the competition also includes a biomedical imaging category that features stunning photographs taken with high-tech scientific equipment.
    Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Remember to bring your own camping equipment, dinner supplies to barbecue, and grill/charcoal.
    Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • This was done by connecting the laptops to hardware devices designed to allow for remote access — things like keyboard-video-mouse, or KVM, switches.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
  • Significant hurdles in error correction and hardware stability remain, keeping practical, large-scale quantum computers a decade or more away.
    Leeor Shimron, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Moving is consistently considered one of the most stressful life events, and a lot of this has to do with the sheer amount of stuff involved.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 June 2025
  • There would be nightclub stuff happening in the evenings.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025

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“Materials.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materials. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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