once-overs

plural of once-over

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for once-overs
Noun
  • Multiple monitoring groups and investigations have likewise pointed to a flood of disinformation campaigns with links to Russia.
    John E. Herbst, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
  • As with all investigations leading to arrest, the subjects of the investigation are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But no rigorous studies have found links between autism and vaccines or medications, or their components such as thimerosal or formaldehyde.
    Reuters, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Sixta is currently chair of the social studies department and is the school’s ACT test coordinator, as well as the faculty advisor for National Honor Society, student council and Upward Bound.
    Ilana Arougheti Updated October 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • One section traces Fletcher's formative years and early experimentations; another touches on her current artistic explorations.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Caroline Hú worked with choreographer Emma Portner in a dance-film hybrid blending Hu’s romantic couture with Portner’s explorations of movement, identity and solitude.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Tye, the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus, used these observations to update models involving the cosmological constant, a concept introduced by Albert Einstein over a century ago.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The observations detected a puzzling event as the planet transitioned from a steady accretion rate in April and May to a burst of growth between June and August.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mercury in Scorpio probes and provokes, demanding to make sense of what is lingering beneath the surface, while Pluto retrograde in Aquarius sheds light on the collective dynamics and unspoken power struggles that influence communities, friendships and societal structures.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • These probes would be stationed at Lagrange Point 1 (L1), a stable orbital location between the Earth and the sun.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Once-overs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/once-overs. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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