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Noun

Boothbay, Maine Three Flags, a 2021 contemporary shingle-style home on Midcoast Maine’s Linekin Bay, has a waterfront porch for dining and lounging, with a wood-burning fireplace and motorized screens. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026 Designed by Saly Karavan, the Sunrise Tiny House is based on a double-axle trailer and finished in wood, with a shingle roof and a traditional cottagey design. — New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2026

Verb

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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The last act before festival founder Olivia Rodrigo, Roan turned it out with all of her powers—bolstered by a bold and bitchy, razor-sharp bob.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2026
After growing the pixie cut back out into a bob, the Mad Men actress showed off her hair while rocking a lacy blue co-ord set in selfies posted to Instagram in March.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of bob

Verb

The company also expects to rationalize and consolidate systems and processes, while eliminating overlapping corporate and centralized resources.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Because symptoms associated with perimenopause can overlap with other medical concerns, talk with a qualified healthcare provider about any new, persistent, severe or concerning symptoms — regardless of your score.

— Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 1 Sep. 2026

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The past is not so much foreign as free, free to anyone who is willing to do the work, to enter the past with a spirit of curiosity and a willingness to conjure a living world out of the detritus that history leaves behind.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
Still, even with Ellison’s $111 billion WBD takeover plan under threat from a state attorneys general antitrust suit, $4 million and change is sofa detritus to the son of Larry Ellison.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of detritus

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Just as many were making decisions about their crops, fertilizer prices soared, peaking in April at 44% higher than before the war, according to the World Bank’s price index.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
Conventional fungicides like chlorothalonil (Daconil) and others are labeled for specific crops and diseases.

— Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of crop

Verb

The opening credits of the film, featuring newsreel footage of military parades overlaid with glitchy effects and harsh techno music, appear to nod at some equating of the America of today with the authoritarian governments of the past.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2026
The software offered to fix it, rendering a version with the left side lifted and overlaying the before and after so the subject could watch his own jawline move.

— Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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