obtrusions

noun

plural of obtrusion
as in snags

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  1. snags
  2. swellings
  3. puffs
  4. knobs
  5. blobs
  6. bumps
  7. humps
  8. sections
Noun
  • Even dead trees and snags are useful, hosting insects for food and cavities for shelter.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2026
  • The fire has primarily burned in grass with some snags, brush and timber, and is burning within the 2020 Loyalton Fire scar.
    — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 11 July 2026
Definition of snags
Noun
  • Burls are sound, hard, woody swellings or protrusions that form on the trunks, branches, or roots of trees.
    — Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026
  • This microscopic roundworm lays its eggs in root tissues, causing swellings or galls to develop on infected roots.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
Definition of swellings
Noun
  • Follow directions on your inhaler for how many puffs to take.
    — Alexandra Frost, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • If the accretion disk puffs up in just the right way, the incoming gas can overwhelm the radiation pressure.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026
Definition of puffs
Noun
  • After listening to some consumers complain about Rivians’ lack of knobs and buttons, the EV maker met them halfway.
    — Greg Migliore, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Pets and other animals accidentally start hundreds of home fires each year, often by knocking over candles, tipping space heaters or bumping stove knobs.
    — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 15 July 2026
Definition of knobs
Noun
  • Furniture stains and splotches are the last thing anyone wants to think about when curating the perfect domestic space, but there’s nothing remotely enjoyable about discolored blobs on furniture.
    — Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2026
  • Electric shades of pink, purple, and orange make a stunning backdrop for these 3D clear blobs.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 17 July 2026
Definition of blobs
Noun
  • Opponents of minimum wage bumps argue actual market wages have increased alongside inflation and productivity growth.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • Leverage this positive outcome, bumps and all, for future change initiatives.
    — Amy Lafko, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of bumps
Noun
  • In fact, while sand traps aren’t overabundant, elevation changes, natural grass humps and, yes, some sand does challenge you most every hole.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 18 June 2026
  • Her office released a report last month critical of the design and placement of speed humps and bumps.
    — Joe Holden, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of humps
Noun
  • Experience gained from managing heavy steel distortion during the welding of KSTAR’s vacuum boundaries informed the tooling and quality control methods later used to fabricate the thicker, more complex ITER sections.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026
  • People are flooding their comment sections from afar with questions, condolences and claims of AI manipulation.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 22 July 2026
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