semierect

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semierect
Adjective
  • Metal filing cabinets first appeared during the 1920s, when document storage shifted from horizontal to space-saving vertical models.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 30 June 2025
  • The young Democratic socialist swept the primary on the back of a media strategy fit for 2025: clever short-form vertical videos, intense message discipline focused on affordability, and an openness to talking to anyone — from niche menswear fashion podcasts to legacy players.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Plants add stunning texture and shining color to the garden with metallic, lavender-blue bracts surrounding flowers that stand erect on purple stems.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 6 June 2025
  • Carlin said, as soldiers need to guide their horses while keeping erect posture.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • His condemnation of authoritarianism electrified the audience, earning a standing ovation and setting a reflective tone that remained all week.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • Legislative leaders began the session by talking tough about reining in the industry, receiving standing ovations in the House and Senate.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Dragonflies hold their wings perpendicular to their bodies, while a damselfly’s wings point straight back, parallel to its body.
    Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2025
  • The action moves from the scarred beach to a quarry where a rock wall is detonated, to liberate mighty boulders of granite that will eventually be placed perpendicular to the shoreline, reaching out into the ocean.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • The exterior lines, with that high plumb bow and endless glass, come from the drawing board of Britain’s Redman Whitely Dixon studio.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 11 June 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 vacuum even converts from an upright model into a handheld that makes jobs like removing pet hair from furniture, crumbs from car seats, and more so much easier.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 29 June 2025
  • Pictures of the remains show the skeleton in an upright position, still retaining dark brown hair.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
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“Semierect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semierect. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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