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Recent Examples of napkin
Your mother used the napkin rings to lighten the load of the laundress (who, for all Miss Manners knows, may have been your mother herself).
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Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
She was also photographed tossing a napkin at her husband, Jake Bongiovi.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
On a steakhouse cocktail napkin, as one ICE official would recall, a plan was sketched out.
—Brent McDonald, New York Times, 31 July 2025
See for yourself All of this fame, success and admiration from associates, friends and family stemmed from notes scribbled on a cocktail napkin.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 21 July 2025
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Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
She was also photographed tossing a napkin at her husband, Jake Bongiovi.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
On a steakhouse cocktail napkin, as one ICE official would recall, a plan was sketched out.
—Brent McDonald, New York Times, 31 July 2025
See for yourself All of this fame, success and admiration from associates, friends and family stemmed from notes scribbled on a cocktail napkin.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 21 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for napkin
Noun
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Then competitors broke down their stations, piling flowers, towels, and candles onto wheeled display tables and rolling them out with the efficiency of a Nascar pit crew.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Turn your towel over and place the stained side on top of a thick layer of paper towels.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The cells extended nerve fibers in both directions, toward the head and tail, to connect with the host spinal tissue.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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The process involves harvesting cells from various sources and administering them to the body to repair tissue.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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So take your place á la table, arrange your serviette neatly on your lap, and bon appétit!—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
11 June 2025
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Use them to aid in pouring wine so that not a drop ends up in the wrong place, or set them beneath decanters like proper serviettes.—
Hannah Selinger,
wsj.com,
29 Sep. 2023
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“Napkin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/napkin. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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