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Recent Examples of shingle
Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
Air pollution in Joppa has been tied to nearby industrial sources, including an asphalt shingle plant, a railroad switchyard and other facilities.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026
This gets a hit of lemon juice and garlic before it’s shingled onto your biggest platter with accompaniments: crunchy iceberg, bursting cherry tomatoes, punchy red onion, and pita chip croutons.
—Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Avoid choosing colors without thinking about the whole picture; always consider how your shingle selection interacts with surrounding elements, including gutters, doors, shutters, and even landscaping.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
Air pollution in Joppa has been tied to nearby industrial sources, including an asphalt shingle plant, a railroad switchyard and other facilities.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
The white shingled oceanfront property got a top-to-bottom redo in 2005, led by Michael S. Smith, the interior designer who famously decorated the Obama White House.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026
This gets a hit of lemon juice and garlic before it’s shingled onto your biggest platter with accompaniments: crunchy iceberg, bursting cherry tomatoes, punchy red onion, and pita chip croutons.
—Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
Noun
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Mazzei explains that Il Caggio features a combination of factors ideal for Sangiovese, including altitudes between 1,050 and 1,150 feet, which ensure balanced ripening, and deep and well-drained clay, schist, and calcareous marl soils dotted with a type of sandstone that imparts intense minerality.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
14 Dec. 2025
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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
Noun
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The Micro Bob Zoë Kravitz on the red carpet at last year’s Academy Museum Gala is a great example of this bob, defined by a feminine flick at the end and a gappy micro-fringe.—
Jeanne Ballion,
Vogue,
30 Mar. 2026
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This might be the sassiest bob of the year.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Holy Week will overlap with Passover, the Jewish holiday marking the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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The Christian holiday of Easter falls on Sunday, April 5, this year, overlapping with the Jewish holiday.—
Bailey Allen,
Cape Cod Times,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The sun shines on the empty wine bottles and related detritus of last night’s debauched party.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
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The area wasn’t all detritus, though.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Rather than going with the traditional Grand Wagoneer woodgrain, Jeep overlaid a topographical design that runs from the front to the rear fenders.—
Caleb Jacobs,
The Drive,
26 Mar. 2026
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These tools typically are used to listen to the interview questions and provide answers in a window overlaid on the video call.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Michael McEwan and wife Heather Nakahara returned to their home in Waialua on Oahu’s North Shore over the weekend to find their kitchen counters covered in red silt.—
Audrey McAvoy,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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This ocean canyon heaves waves of shale and basalt, quartz and silt.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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His play was key in helping the Hornets’ crop of reserves outscore Philadelphia’s non-starters 33-21.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Mar. 2026
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My friend Thai, whose parents were part of the Weather Underground leadership, remembers his father, Jeff Jones, coming home one day to find their family’s Hoboken apartment surrounded by cops—a fire inspector had spotted his tiny crop of marijuana plants on the fire escape.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Decades of static storage lead to the unavoidable accumulation of heavy waxes, dense inorganic sediments, and highly corrosive hydrogen sulfide produced by sulfate-reducing bacteria — turning the bottom of the cavern into a chemical nightmare.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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TreePeople, an environmental group partnering with UCLA, found that Los Angeles County produces more than 160,000 tons of clean, native sediment each year from construction projects.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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