stovepipe

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Recent Examples of stovepipe And more often than not, there was Abraham Lincoln, singing along in black suit and stovepipe hat. New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, eliminate stovepipes that inhibit information sharing between tracking agencies. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 Remove all branches within 10 feet of any chimney or stovepipe outlet. Eric MacK, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 In the drone ecosystem, definitive stovepipes revolve around technology development. Bill Edwards, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stovepipe
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Noun
  • Social commerce—shopping experiences integrated directly into social media platforms—is collapsing the traditional sales funnel into a single, interactive moment.
    Catherine Erdly, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, all the usual fair trappings — carnival rides, funnel cakes, roaming performers and livestock displays — are returning.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Check that your washer’s drain hose is securely connected and that the standpipe (a vertical pipe in the wall—usually PVC—that your machine’s hose drains into) is the correct height (usually 18–30 inches).
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The 85-unit building was built in 1968 and was not required to have sprinklers or standpipes, Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Nashville police said in a release 31-year-old Ashley Sells was the driver of a Dodge Charger that video evidence showed was performing doughnuts while Shannon Kilgore was laying on the hood.
    Ruben Montoya, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The top included a hood that draped down into a high neckline, while the floor-length skirt featured a sculptural roll of padding around the waistband, creating a flared look at her hips.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At Farm Central, the Seabrook headquarters, a brick smokestack, built by Kelly Brickworks in Philadelphia, with the name SEABROOK painted vertically, rose 225 feet in the air.
    John Seabrook June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • None deny minority neighborhoods on the South and West sides suffer more from the dirty air, water and soil that historically came from steel mills, smokestacks and truck traffic.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • She was last seen wearing a white tank top, gray skinny ripped jeans and a pink bonnet in her hair.
    Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025
  • This car gets a full-width rear spoiler offering 44kg of downforce at 202 mph, a plethora of ‘S’ badging, bonnet blades, and underbody treatment, to allow for 111kg of downforce at vmax.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Officials urge residents in fire-prone areas to clear vegetation, maintain visible hydrants, and prepare evacuation plans.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The municipality of Quito has ordered the deployment of 71 water tankers, five hydrants, five inflatable systems and three fixed water distribution points in southern Quito to address the emergency.
    Ana María Cañizares, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • In a race that includes a former governor and incumbent mayor with national reputations, a socialist frontrunner, and a combative former mayoral candidate toting a red beret, Walden’s relatively low-key temperament has seen his presence in the campaign diminished by his rivals.
    Menachem Spiegel, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Think crochet dresses, chiffon shawls in sorbet hues, berets, coiffed afros, mixed prints, Studio 54-esque jumpsuits, beaded braids à la Patrice Rushen, and men dressed like Barkley Hendricks paintings.
    Shelton Boyd-Griffith, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Babita watched the laborers’ children playing astride a tunnel drainpipe, made steady by a heap of sand, as their parents worked.
    Kiran Desai, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Scientists determined that the crustaceans had become trapped in the sewers some 2,000 years ago when Rome was becoming urbanized and had lived there ever since—not just below Trajan’s Forum but in an entire system of canals, drainpipes and other watery infrastructure hidden below city streets.
    Krista Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025

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“Stovepipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stovepipe. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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