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Recent Examples of softener
Another addition to consider is a water softener in your shower head.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
Flush your water heater twice a year, and think about using a water softener to stop scale buildup in pipes.
—Tina Chen, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
Flush your water heater twice a year, and think about using a water softener to stop scale buildup in pipes.
—Tina Chen, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for softener
Noun
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Buying a small business doesn’t have to mean becoming the owner of a mundane muffler shop or America’s 19,503rd Subway franchise.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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This Avanti has a V8 engine with an R2 supercharger, power steering, a silent muffler, a floor-shift automatic transmission and Twin-Traction differential.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Si models feature upgraded brakes, wider low-profile tires, and sport suspension—the dampers have been retuned for 2025 to take advantage of the Civic’s stiff body structure.—
Michael Harley,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Paired with adaptive dampers, this hardware enables advanced driver-assistance features and lays the groundwork for future updates.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But at least Chalamet doesn’t try to soft pedal Dylan’s surliness and careerism, and his vocal re-creations are mostly spot on.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Feb. 2025
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Authors aimed at the business market tend to soft pedal AI, speaking only about the benefits while downplaying or outright ignoring the dangers.—
David A. Teich,
Forbes,
10 Sep. 2024
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“Softener.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softener. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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