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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterns
Noun
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Palisades Village displayed three beams of light rising from the property on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the devastating wildfires across Los Angeles County — and to honor the victims and survivors in the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Malibu communities.—
Staff report,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026 -
Their family property has sat empty for years — the horse corral's beams are broken and its roof caved in, the garage tilts, and the house needs extensive repairs.—
Katheryn Houghton,
NPR,
8 Jan. 2026
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Netflix Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters have positioned the streaming giant in a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose scenario, no matter the outcome of the Warner bidding war.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Zhang, of Purdue, studies bioelectrical signaling in zebra fish, which develop striking extra-long tails when a certain ion channel is mutated.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
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He has been vilified for his notorious drawings of oversized women with ample rumps and thick, powerful legs, definitely objectified and more or less turned into meat-at-the-ready.—
David Zane Mairowitz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Dec. 2025
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Grande wore a glossy pink shade on her lips, sculpted cheeks with subtle shimmer, and long lashes.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
12 Jan. 2026
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Her rosy lips and cheeks keep the look as classic as can be.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
12 Jan. 2026
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The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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That was Wilson, the genial leather-breeches maker, shoving a soldier to his knees.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Sterns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterns. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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