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That surge is happening inside a largely unregulated market, where anyone can hang a shingle and start handling other people’s pets. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026 The author Elin Hilderbrand purchased a shingle-style, 2,940-square-foot home on the island of Nantucket in 2015 and then spent seven years — and over $2 million — renovating it. — Addie Morfoot, New York Times, 11 July 2026

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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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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

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For an additional pop of color, Cardi wore her hair in an icy blue bob that was parted to the side and curled under at the ends.

— Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
To avoid the long straight lines around your face that are often part of a bob cut, add face framing to break up the lines and create movement, Jones says.

— Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 26 July 2026

Definition of bob

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Applying a mycorrhizal inoculant to a bed planted mainly with these crops is unlikely to provide a meaningful benefit.

— Dr. Avishesh Neupane, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
Of course those are only two of the marvelous local crops on offer at both Breezy Willow and at our two local farmers’ markets — Tiber Park in the historic district and the Miller Library.

— Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2026

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For more detail, eclipse expert Xavier Jubier’s website overlays the eclipse’s path on Google Maps, which allows zooming down to the street level.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
The glasses then rendered that infrared in shades of red or a red-cyan mixture, overlaid on top of a normal field of visible light.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of overlay

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Operating continuously beneath complex sub-river geology of riverbed silt and sand, the shield machine operated without intermediate access shafts.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026
The water drew back from the house, left a thick, stinking silt across the floor.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

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