SOCKETS Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

sockets

noun

plural of socket

as in openings

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Noun

With hundreds of new units in the area, there are usually openings.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2026
This week brings a bevy of government economic data, including job openings, consumer spending, inflation and the September jobs report.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of openings

Noun

After the young widow stepped back behind the black curtains, where scoops of mint chocolate chip in disposable bamboo bowls drifted through a room of donors and White House staffers, the evening moved from celebration to wake.

— Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026
Paper hot pot is a style of cooking where fire-resistant paper bowls tucked into mesh strainers are placed over tabletop burners that keep the food at a simmer.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of bowls

Noun

The deal also brought together a portfolio than now includes the Marcellus, Eagle Ford and Powder River basins, among others.

— David Faber, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
The aqueduct seemed to make the city’s founding river not just obsolete but dangerous, so construction began on catch basins, dams and reservoirs.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of basins

Noun

Incorporating antique finds, greenery, and utilizing your home’s quirky features, like alcoves and nooks, are just a few of the ways your home is set apart from the rest on the block.

— Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2026
Inside, antique art hangs on walls, tamgroute (local pottery) lines small alcoves, board games are stacked inside cupboards, and coffee table books have plenty to dive into.

— Katie Silcox, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of alcoves

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The brain’s surface has ridges and valleys, and CTE tangles are found in the depths of those valleys, called the cortical sulci, and surround blood vessels.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
In places at low to moderate risk of fire, along the edges of flat valleys and lazy hills, growth in the FAIR Plan is ballooning, and it is being used to underwrite new suburban development.

— Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of valleys

Noun

Since moving in, each member of the family has found their favorite nooks.

— Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Sep. 2026
For the October 5, 2026, issue, the artist and architect Victoria Tentler-Krylov celebrates the flower district, one of New York’s most magical, verdant nooks.

— Françoise Mouly, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of nooks

Noun

When the catastrophe wiped out their massive non-avian relatives, the bird lineages that survived were positioned to take advantage of newly vacant ecological niches.

— Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Wall niches display fragrances, books and Crivelli’s found items, such as bark or a feather he’s collected during travels.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of niches

Noun

On a map, Newfoundland is a vast, asymmetrical island, cloven by bays and inlets, semi-detached to appendages of land deformed by ancient glaciers scraping over it, leaving glacial striations, grooves and gouges on its granite face.

— Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
While hunter-gatherers from that time are known to have used their teeth as tools — holding, breaking, stretching things — none of those uses matched the grooves on these teeth.

— Pien Huang, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026

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