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Recent Examples of rattan
Off the back, a three-season sunroom — painted in calming hues, strung with lights, and furnished with repurposed rattan, offers the perfect perch to watch the fire pit glow as night falls.
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Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 18 July 2025
The key to ensuring bold colors don’t overpower your nursery design is to embrace natural woods, textures, rattans, and jutes.
—Nina Derwin, Architectural Digest, 18 July 2025
It is made from a sturdy metal frame wrapped in dark brown rattan.
—Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 11 July 2025
The chairs and ottomans are crafted from weather-resistant PE rattan that stands up to harsh UV rays, rain, and other outdoor elements.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 8 July 2025
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Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 18 July 2025
The key to ensuring bold colors don’t overpower your nursery design is to embrace natural woods, textures, rattans, and jutes.
—Nina Derwin, Architectural Digest, 18 July 2025
It is made from a sturdy metal frame wrapped in dark brown rattan.
—Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 11 July 2025
The chairs and ottomans are crafted from weather-resistant PE rattan that stands up to harsh UV rays, rain, and other outdoor elements.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rattan
Noun
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Mixed oak woods, pine and birch, upland rowan.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Looking through sketchbooks of Kaish’s time at MacDowell, Fisher found many drawings of the flowers and birch trees that would have surrounded her.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In areas that once boasted generations of oak and hickory trees, beech and maple now make up large portions of the midstory.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
29 Oct. 2025
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The easiest way to do this is to assess whether your kitchen cabinets are warm (with red, yellow, or orange undertones), like cherry, oak, hickory, and pine; or cool (with gray undertones), like white oak, ash, maple, or birch cabinetry.—
Monika Biegler Eyers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2025
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Five straps of differing widths hold the foot in place as the shoe’s upper balance on top of a six-inch heel.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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For suitcases, this may include dual main compartments with zippered mesh closures and compression straps, a pocketed divider, removable laundry or shoe bags, and interior zippered pockets of various sizes to keep your smallest essentials in order.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Nov. 2025
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Engineered with innovative construction techniques, each curve of the shoe flows in plush cowhide suede, rising just above the ankle in a continuous fluid form.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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Just as cowhide leather exploded in usage only after the advent of chrome-tanning in the 1980s because of the performance improvement that technology gave it, mycelium has needed this sort of breakthrough that Rei-Tan provides to turn it from an interesting raw material into a great product.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Oct. 2025
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Experts warn of a bullwhip effect: Today’s surplus can morph into tomorrow’s shortage after capacity cuts, complicating cost curves and undermining learning‑rate benefits critical to long‑term competitiveness against China’s scaled ecosystem.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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And, in an offering from a more rugged hero, Harrison Ford’s bullwhip, belt, and whip holster (the only complete set to ever be offered at auction) from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is estimated to hammer down for between $250,000 and $500,000.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Pictures of Piper the dog, who last year went through an awful health scare after having a rawhide treat.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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Chinese laborers, rare for that time, made rawhide bags on site to take the limestone and dump it into iron buckets on an aerial tramway, according to Meniketti’s report.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
6 July 2025
Noun
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The sedate throwing of flowers erupted into a fistfight, a ministampede and people lashed with whips and riding quirts.—
John MacCormack,
San Antonio Express-News,
26 Apr. 2018
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The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Prices could stabilize, but not decrease, by next year as crop yields have increased, said David Branch, a sector manager at Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Rattan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rattan. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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