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Recent Examples of scalelike
This upright evergreen has flat sprays of scalelike, aromatic, yellow-green to green foliage.
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Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
The rover began exploring the Marker Band feature — which was found to have thin, hard rocks covering the surface is a scalelike pattern — in 2022.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
The rover began exploring the Marker Band feature — which was found to have thin, hard rocks covering the surface is a scalelike pattern — in 2022.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scalelike
Adjective
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Further tests revealed a shocking new diagnosis: p16 squamous carcinoma, a type of head and neck cancer.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
5 Dec. 2025
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Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL): Typically indicates HPV infection and that more testing is needed.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Flow Space,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Expliseat has navigated the challenging transition from startup to scaled manufacturer, moving from outsourced production to internalized assembly – a critical step that its CEO sees as foundational to the company's ambitious growth plans.—
Karl Moore,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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But certain regimes remain tricky to simulate perfectly, such as unsteady interactions at off‑design angles, boundary‑layer transition, and inlet buzz, which is why scaled wind‑tunnel models still earn their keep validating corner cases before full‑scale testing.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Scalelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scalelike. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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