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Recent Examples of shingle
Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
Loose siding and damaged shingles should also be repaired to prevent access for raccoons.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2025
Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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Noun
A lot of homes were clad in shingles made of asbestos, which many people covered with siding, Bovino said.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
Loose siding and damaged shingles should also be repaired to prevent access for raccoons.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2025
Verb
Thick slices of extra crispy, crackling pork belly were shingled over a thick kare-kare sauce.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
Noun
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In Friuli Venezia Giulia, the soils are rich in marl and sandstone, locally referred to as ponca.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The vines are planted in limestone, marl, and clay soils and are situated with eastern and southeastern exposures at altitudes of 750 to 1,000 feet so grapes mature perfectly with the right balance of sugars, acid, and minerality.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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During the mid-90s, Diana and Sophie were indistinguishable by their blonde bob.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
22 July 2025
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The good news is that a bob will complement anyone.—
Catharine Malzahn,
Glamour,
24 July 2025
Verb
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The complaint also says the policy violates Graves' 14th Amendment rights to control her child's education in several instances, overlapping with their First Amendment argument.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
13 Aug. 2025
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In the space of 10 seconds, the triangle takes on four different forms, with overlapping and underlapping runs crucial in creating a one-vs-one for the player on the ball.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
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Beyond the gate there’s a floating coagulation of detritus. ¶ Sebastopol The occasional aberration forms in the air.—
Ariel Saramandi,
The Dial,
29 July 2025
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Throwing that detritus away is the third-most expensive component of sweeping.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
Verb
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These routines are highly edited, almost hypnotic, with quick cuts, each mini-scene overlaid with a time stamp.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
14 Aug. 2025
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Finally, paleoclimate reconstructions were overlaid with paleogeographic maps showing where the continents were at that point in time, and together formed a kind of ancient climate atlas that could offer a clearer and more detailed picture of primate origin and ensuing movement.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Aug. 2025
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Healthy soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and organic matter, which provide nutrients to plants and help water drain properly.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Aug. 2025
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When similar deep drawdowns occurred at Green Peter and Lookout Point dams in the Willamette Valley, downstream rivers turned brown, and silt challenged the drinking water plants serving towns such as Albany and Lebanon.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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This shade created micro-climates where smaller fruit trees and ground crops could grow, while palm trunks and fences woven from fronds helped hold back the ever-encroaching sand and doubled as building materials.—
Jacob Jones,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Aug. 2025
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Over the past two years, he’s partnered with a brilliant crop of iconoclastic directors who have reimagined many of his signature shows in radical ways.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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The shocker is a plot of earth’s temperature, obtained from ice cores and lake sediments, tracks minima and maxima of the sunspot plot at six different times between 1600 and 2000.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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These tools can detect forest loss, identify mining pits and sediment runoff, and analyse changes over time.—
Marian Selorm Sapah,
Space.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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