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Definition of shingle

as in marl

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Noun

Beaver's Mini Mart occupies a long, low building with a shingle roof at a suburban intersection. — CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 Beaver’s Mini Mart occupies a long, low building with a shingle roof at a suburban intersection. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

Verb

The island had gone from farm and pasture in the nineteenth century to nature preserves and residential property in the twentieth, its silvery shingled homes encircled by forests and deer. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 In fact, shingles rates among people in their 30s and 40s increased for almost two decades starting in 1998—and younger adults and children can get the illness too. — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for shingle

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Noun

Freshman Ben Smith became the first NCAA outdoor champion for Oregon in the shot put since Dean Crouser (1982) with a marl of 69-0 1/2.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 June 2026
Its striking blue-green hues and clarity—allowing visibility of 20 to 30 feet—are due to minimal organic runoff and calcium-rich marl sediment from its glacial origins.

— Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2026

Definition of marl

Noun

Prompts for bangs are up 60 percent as a category, led by wispy bangs (up 260 percent) and curtain bangs (up 100 percent), alongside a rise in more dramatic cuts like bobs and pixie cuts.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
With their powers combined, Mena and Cunningham found a way to make a blonde bob feel so right for fall.

— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of bob

Verb

Both Kim and Lewis have quickly found their overlapping aesthetic sensibilities.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2026
Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork draws on all these influences, and many more, to evoke overlapping Parises that chime with one another like a ghostly carillon.

— Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of overlap

Noun

These monstrous masses are themselves dark, but their formidable gravity violently vacuums up gas and other nearby matter, generating rings of hot, swirling detritus that completely outshine the stars around them.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
The Avalanches are turning their fascination with the detritus of modern life into something unusually expansive.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of detritus

Verb

Forms of slave knowledge, overlaid on Indigenous ones, were influential in treating dysentery and elaborating antidotes for poisonings.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
The opening credits of the film, featuring newsreel footage of military parades overlaid with glitchy effects and harsh techno music, appear to nod at some equating of the America of today with the authoritarian governments of the past.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of overlay

Noun

Tesla says using the mechanical release can damage the window or trim.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
That matters when a new vehicle can easily cost $40,000, $50,000 or more, and when moving up a trim level or adding a technology package can push the price higher still.

— Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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