sterns

Definition of sternsnext
plural of stern

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Noun
  • While the space itself, clad in bricks and steel beams, feels historic, its state-of-the-art sound system churns out high-quality sounds for your night on the dance floor.
    Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Players also gain access to fire, electric and ice beams that are needed to bypass obstacles and handle the weak points of certain enemies.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The annual celebration of all things lobster offers customers the opportunity to enjoy classic lobster tails, as well as an innovative line-up of new and unusual ways to enjoy lobsters.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The canards and tails have also been reprofiled in order lower drag, thus improving energy efficiency and stability while cruising.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The result of two drops to both cheeks and forehead each?
    Sarah Han, Allure, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Squirrel-like Skwovets and Greedents hoard their berries and jam their cheeks with food as a Fearow flaps its wings overhead.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 1 Feb. 2026.

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