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a wide range or assortment
The ice cream shop offers a rainbow of flavors.
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Recent Examples of rainbows
Ozarks Pridefest Springfield, Missouri Every June, the downtown square in Springfield, Missouri, becomes awash in rainbows and flooded with people.
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Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 29 May 2026
Dream Puffs are a mix of Strawberry Foam and Peach Foam flavors shaped into pink and orange rainbows, clouds, and SmartSweets logos.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
Back in town, inside Palma’s majestic Gothic landmark La Seu, spellbinding rainbows of color flooded down on the nave, and flying buttresses exquisitely embellished the walkable roof terrace.
—Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
While Bronze's face was painted with a shark and some flames, little Sterling looked sweet with unicorns and rainbows across her cheeks.
—Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
Others remain largely under wraps, like an American waterfall that produces one of the world’s most consistent lunar rainbows.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
Elke and Alysia started seeing the big bugs fluttering around in late April, and as their numbers grew through early May, the native rainbows started keying in on them more and more.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.
—Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
The belly attachment catches browns, and the aft attachment catches rainbows.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2026
Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 29 May 2026
Dream Puffs are a mix of Strawberry Foam and Peach Foam flavors shaped into pink and orange rainbows, clouds, and SmartSweets logos.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
Back in town, inside Palma’s majestic Gothic landmark La Seu, spellbinding rainbows of color flooded down on the nave, and flying buttresses exquisitely embellished the walkable roof terrace.
—Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
While Bronze's face was painted with a shark and some flames, little Sterling looked sweet with unicorns and rainbows across her cheeks.
—Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
Others remain largely under wraps, like an American waterfall that produces one of the world’s most consistent lunar rainbows.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
Elke and Alysia started seeing the big bugs fluttering around in late April, and as their numbers grew through early May, the native rainbows started keying in on them more and more.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.
—Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
The belly attachment catches browns, and the aft attachment catches rainbows.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rainbows
varieties
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Tree peonies, fern peonies, and woodland peonies bloom first; hybrid varieties, like true reds and corals, bloom mid-season; and other peonies bloom in the latter half of spring.—
Blythe Copeland,
Martha Stewart,
4 June 2026
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Endless varieties of insect larvae also make astonishingly effective baits, but few fishermen — except ice-fishermen who buy mealworms and waxworms in bait shops — even use them.—
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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“Rainbows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainbows. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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