pores

plural of pore

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Noun
  • Katie Holmes, Selena Gomez, and many fashion editors have also been seen wearing this cult coat, which has softly draped shawl lapels, dropped shoulders and slits at the seams.
    Emma Spedding, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The boat neck and side slits mean the top moves with you and doesn't feel restrictive.
    Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • These include weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cavities, and gout, a type of arthritis.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Enamel degradation affects nearly half of the world’s population, contributing to cavities, infections, and even systemic health issues such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Screwworms—or technically New World Screwworms (NWS)—are parasitic flies that spawn hundreds of ravenous larvae in the wounds and orifices of a wide range of warm-blooded animals.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • These Celestron Skymaster 20x80 binoculars let in enough light for regular skywatching, thanks to their massive 80mm apertures.
    Chris McMullen, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Similarly, in astronomy, larger apertures, advances in photography and spectroscopy, the development of multi-wavelength astronomy beyond the visible light spectrum, and the first space telescopes all brought in new observational data that upended many pre-existing ideas.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And as for the $4 billion, 47-mile gas pipeline, Vásquez and the canal’s brass are aiming to free up the waterway’s slots for other vessels, while giving Panama more opportunities to expand into new markets.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The new law also directs federal funding towards a project to set up additional medical residency slots, including OB-GYN residency slots, in Iowa.
    Natalie Krebs, NPR, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • How To Keep Stink Bugs Out Stink bugs can squeeze into tight spaces between siding, crawl into cracks and crevices in window frames, and enter through open doors, windows, and vents.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The journalist Beth Macy, who in her previous books chronicled the widening fissures in American society by examining the opioid crisis and the aftereffects of globalization, grew up there.
    Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Pores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pores. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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