semierect

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semierect
Adjective
  • This modular setup served as a bridge solution for the Type 125 class, which currently lacks a vertical launch system.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Standing out is a spacious living room wrapped in vertical fir siding, plus a dining area that connects to a minimalist kitchen upgraded with newer stainless steel appliances.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • People erect and decorate ofrendas (offerings) with pictures and mementos of loved ones.
    Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Many use social media to call for an end to the violence, then erect memorials at the site of the shooting.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The theater gave him a standing ovation.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The second clip showed Princess Kate getting a standing ovation at the Wimbledon Tennis Championship in London in July 2024 during only her second public appearance after starting chemotherapy for cancer that February.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Slice against that, perpendicular to the lines, to shorten the muscle fibers.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • If the silica is perpendicular, photons arrive together.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • McKeon’s exterior has the same unpretentious elegance: a plumb bow and prowling lines that resemble a vessel in which the 2030s meets the 1930s, wrapped inside a technologically advanced frame.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In My Mother and Eye, 2025, a sweeping Public Art Fund project installed in bus shelters across New York City, Boston, and Chicago, eleven discrete photographic collages plumb this intangible meeting point.
    Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • The rash may begin as small, flat, round discolorations that become raised and fluid-filled (clear or pus) before scabbing.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2022
Adjective
  • Food items inside the three-door upright cooler and freezer needed to be covered.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The handheld vacuum comes equipped with dual suction modes, which can reach a maximum speed that rivals upright models.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Semierect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semierect. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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