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Recent Examples of sill
The next morning, Frank paints the window sills white.
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Jp Mangalindan, Time, 5 Dec. 2025
Removing the roof required a fair amount of engineering to ensure torsional rigidity, including strengthening the door sills, A-pillars, and adding cross-body braces.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
Totems of Lan Thao’s and my relationship are propped on the window sill: a hand puppet of the King of the Gods and plastic effigies of Marcie and Peppermint Patty, the faithful Peanuts pair.
—Lana Lin
september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
The harvest came, banks ran short, directors vaulted over the sills, and Morgan cleaned up.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
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Jp Mangalindan, Time, 5 Dec. 2025
Removing the roof required a fair amount of engineering to ensure torsional rigidity, including strengthening the door sills, A-pillars, and adding cross-body braces.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
Totems of Lan Thao’s and my relationship are propped on the window sill: a hand puppet of the King of the Gods and plastic effigies of Marcie and Peppermint Patty, the faithful Peanuts pair.
—Lana Lin
september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
The harvest came, banks ran short, directors vaulted over the sills, and Morgan cleaned up.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sill
Noun
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Make your vehicle visible to others both ahead of you and behind you by using your low-beam headlights since this means your taillights will also be on.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Alipio tied Chiles for best score on the balance beam.—
Anthony Solorzano,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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It’s been put through the wood chipper.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Blakeman and Smith on Friday visited an old campsite where a group of people had built tiny homes in the woods, complete with running water, a garden and an outdoor bar.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The strikes come as Kaiser raises costs for patients and health providers across California brace for tighter margins following cuts to federal health spending.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Bitcoin, once touted as digital gold, is floundering as gold and silver rocket to record highs and traders brace for a Federal Reserve game-changer.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Joe subtly smiled, like a Western Pennsylvania dad after his kid just lowered his shoulder and pushed the pile forward into the end zone.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Mozilla’s cash pile is dwarfed by OpenAI, which has raised more than $60 billion from investors across the globe, and its rival Anthropic, which has raised more than $30 billion, according to PitchBook.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
27 Jan. 2026
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Health care providers can perform X-Rays, put on splints and suture wounds, test for respiratory illnesses and viral infections such as COVID and strep throat and perform urine analysis, among other services.—
Jonny Williams,
The Providence Journal,
23 Jan. 2026
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It has also been used to design assistive tools such as finger splints and utensil grips.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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Alongside fellow co-owner John Mara, Tisch assumed control of the team in 2005 after his father had purchased a majority stake in the team in 1991.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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For example, in January, L Catterton bought a majority stake in cottage cheese upstart Good Culture.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
31 Jan. 2026
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The couple, a man and a woman, were struck on their backs with a rattan stick in a public park while dozens of people watched, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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The new approach to performance assessment isn’t all stick—there are carrots, too.—
Claire Zillman,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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That summer, the NYAG’s general counsel finally found an objectionable line in one of Goldis’s blog posts, titled Free to Ban.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Jan. 2026
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The driverless Waymo, which was traveling at 17 miles per hour, quickly hit the brakes and collided with the child at a speed of roughly 6 miles per hour (Waymo claimed in its blog post that a human driver in the same situation would have only had time to slow to 14 mph).—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Sill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sill. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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