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Recent Examples of shingle
Dean Stattmann, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
Many other entrepreneurs — some of them retired and looking to finally hang their own shingle — have learned how to launch gardening, construction and culinary businesses.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The wood is treated to keep out termites and moisture, and the whole thing can be painted and shingled to match your home.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 20 July 2025
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Noun
All of the wooden pieces are hand-crafted from eastern white cedar, and the structure is capped off with a metal shingle roof that gives the sauna a great standalone presence as well as some extra protection from the elements.
—Dean Stattmann, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
Many other entrepreneurs — some of them retired and looking to finally hang their own shingle — have learned how to launch gardening, construction and culinary businesses.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
But the White Elephant will leave its Victorian-inspired, shingled blueprint on the island while embracing a modern brick and wood façade and a curved glass entry for its boutique hotel in downtown Aspen.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The wood is treated to keep out termites and moisture, and the whole thing can be painted and shingled to match your home.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 20 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shingle
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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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Instead of the cropped athleisure and workout ‘fits that have become Jenner’s calling card, the star showed that the capris can be the chicest night-out staple while pairing it with a flirty bob and a crop top.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
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Mirren’s silvery hair was styled in a blunt bob with wisps of fringe to frame her face.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The symptoms that social media users are describing might overlap with seasonal affective disorder, depersonalization or the long-term effects of past trauma, Fisher said.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The overlapping relationships between the three, heightened by external narratives in the press and online, fester in isolation, eventually exploding into tragedy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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Urbano recovered fragments of the original arena and presented them under a ceiling, lit from above and covered with dead leaves and other plant detritus.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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It was designed to be incorporated into a three-dimensional exhibit where the canvas would blend into a foreground of clay, grass shrubbery, and the detritus of battle – all of it creating a you-were-there sense of reality.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Dec. 2025
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The Calm team worked with the film’s sound designer, Lee Salevan, and composer Bryce Dessner, utilizing the film’s sound stems and score cues overlaid with sections of dialogue from Bentley and Greg Kwedar’s script.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
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For example, in one platform’s presentation, none of the content demonstrated was localized into English, and video clips shown were not stripped of the extensive Japanese text overlays that are a hallmark of Japanese television, despite the platform being meant for international producers.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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These rivers shaped the story of California — a sense of place — from the native peoples shaped by these rivers to the men who extracted riches from the silt.—
Sacramento Bee staff,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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This stretch of the Great Hungarian Plain was once the nation’s breadbasket, a lush expanse of silt and soil regularly replenished by the flooding of the Danube and Tisza rivers.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Actually, the sooner the better to obtain an early start on this spring crop.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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The extensive waterworks also made way for sprawling sugarcane fields in the Everglades Agricultural Area, where farmers tended their crops with nutrient-rich fertilizers.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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By analyzing the bones and pyre sediments, researchers believe that hunter-gatherers cremated the body of a woman about 9,500 years ago, according to their study published Thursday in the journal Science Advances.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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Here was a human elbow joint, burned and fractured, preserved in sediments full of debris from the daily lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers.—
Elizabeth Sawchuk,
The Conversation,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Shingle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shingle. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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