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Recent Examples of quill
Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.
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CNN,
2 Nov. 2022
For six weeks last summer the DC-8 and a pair of Twin Otters similarly quilled with atmospheric-sampling instruments flew through more than 100 different columns.
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Kyle Dickman,
Scientific American,
1 Mar. 2020
While pens, pencils, and quills still work magic on a piece of paper, writing utensils for your bullet journal can be a pain to carry around.
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Billy Cadden,
Popular Science,
31 Jan. 2020
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CNN,
2 Nov. 2022
For six weeks last summer the DC-8 and a pair of Twin Otters similarly quilled with atmospheric-sampling instruments flew through more than 100 different columns.
—
Kyle Dickman,
Scientific American,
1 Mar. 2020
While pens, pencils, and quills still work magic on a piece of paper, writing utensils for your bullet journal can be a pain to carry around.
—
Billy Cadden,
Popular Science,
31 Jan. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quill
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This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).
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Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
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The Test Kitchen prefers perforated grill baskets ($30, Amazon).
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This fat line fed a series of narrower pipes in the tower, which ran along the corners of every floor, wall, and ceiling, and were perforated to spray gas into the rooms.
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Now another boom, AI, has thrust him back into the three-comma club.
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On board, the crew prepared to thrust heaving lines over the white hull of this historic 295-foot behemoth.
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There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
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And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
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The Safavieh Parker Dining Chairs are the perfect mix of farmhouse and transitional style with their durable oak wood frame and spindle flat-back design.
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For robots and things of that nature, servo motors for robots, but also spindle and stepper motors for various applications.
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“Quill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quill. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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