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Recent Examples of shingle
Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The facade combines wood that has been painted red, spruce shingles, and glazing with integrated solar panels, helping to reduce its draw on the grid.
—New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The shrimp cocktail at the comically exclusive Polo Bar in Manhattan is an imposing specimen, the crustaceans arriving tightly shingled on a steeple of ice accented by a celery spire.
—Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Powerful straight-line winds that strafed Carmichael neighborhoods, toppling trees and sending roof shingles and patio furniture flying, blew in on the coattails of thunderstorms that struck the Sacramento area Tuesday.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The facade combines wood that has been painted red, spruce shingles, and glazing with integrated solar panels, helping to reduce its draw on the grid.
—New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
The pristine shingled buildings behind a white picket fence at The Roundtree only hint at their long history, but one of its cottages dates back 250 years.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
The shrimp cocktail at the comically exclusive Polo Bar in Manhattan is an imposing specimen, the crustaceans arriving tightly shingled on a steeple of ice accented by a celery spire.
—Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
Noun
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Right now, everyone’s getting a casual collarbone bob to welcome the fall season.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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Bardot bangs and Old Hollywood bobs have also been red-carpet staples recently.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Maybe a persona of boastful anger has something in common, and the two persona vectors overlap.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Gaudí’s secular and sacred impulses overlapped.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The avalanche temporarily dammed the Lonza River, which runs through Blatten, and small lakes, filled with dead trees and detritus from homes, formed on each side of the village.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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But its detritus remains, giving rise to streaks that wow sky watchers every August.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The sound department actually played the music that would overlay the scene as Dockery acted.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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At its core, Caption with Intention is a novel captioning design system which aims to significantly augment several critical points of failure within traditional captioning by overlaying animation, color and variable typography to bring the text to life.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Howell said a silt protection barrier on the street near the construction site became clogged, leading to an overflow of water.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
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The flood left a silt dirt behind, which can be home to these tiny flies that lay their eggs in organic matter typically found in sewer or piping systems.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Arabidopsis is a lab-friendly weed, not a crop or tree.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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The vinegar is made by a passionate duo who process obscure small-batch crops at the peak of their season.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In a new study published in Antiquity, researchers from Cambridge and Nottingham examined a 16-feet sediment core from Aldborough in Yorkshire, an important center of metal production located at a former Roman tribal town of Brigantes.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Direct dating Paleontologists often estimate the age of plant and animal fossils based on sediments where the organic material was preserved.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It’s finished in a beautiful coat of light green and has loads of chrome trim and a black roof.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
12 Sep. 2025
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Gaps Behind Siding and Trim Your home’s exterior siding and decorative trim pieces might look tight, but pests know better.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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