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of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color
the cheese maker told us that the best Parmesan cheeses are straw, not white, in color
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Recent Examples of straw
Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
His early shows were cast with friends, staged in empty swimming pools, and styled with straw hats large enough to shade entire runways.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 May 2025
Lucky Benson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
The nation's largest auto finance company has dropped its lawsuit against auto dealer Russ Darrow over loans to what turned out to be straw buyers of luxury vehicles destined for China via a con man's business.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2018
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Noun
In addition to the revelations about Montgomery and the feds’ suspicion about another straw donor scheme, the documents reveal FBI agents accused Adams of lying about one of his personal cellphones.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
His early shows were cast with friends, staged in empty swimming pools, and styled with straw hats large enough to shade entire runways.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 May 2025
Adjective
Inside the building’s stucco walls are straw bales, a material championed for its sustainability by Harrison and the artistic community who built the house.
—Lucky Benson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
The nation's largest auto finance company has dropped its lawsuit against auto dealer Russ Darrow over loans to what turned out to be straw buyers of luxury vehicles destined for China via a con man's business.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straw
Adjective
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The model styled her look with a side part and dusty blond tone.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
13 May 2025
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On his left, the lovely blond Trump in a tank top and jeans, smiling.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2025
Noun
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This obscure Jordanian company underwrites weird risks in weird places (recent claim: loss from cancellation of a rock concert in Venice after the lead singer inhaled smoke from a fire at a gig in Paris).—
William Baldwin,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Crews from the Trumbull Center, Long Hill and Nichols Fire Departments responded and found smoke caused by a small electrical fire from a power cord.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
16 May 2025
Noun
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There are 10 king bedrooms, five of which have sleeping lofts, two queen rooms, and one with bunks.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2025
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Designed to hold 40,000 inmates, including mass murderers and drug traffickers, prisoners are confined in large, windowless cages with minimal furnishings of tiered metal bunks, an open toilet, and a cement basin.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Then there are also so many quintessential pop hits and Top 40 songs that blow it through the roof.—
Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
27 Dec. 2024
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While 143—now titled 1432—and the several singles that were spun off of the project are nowhere to be found on the charts in the United Kingdom at the moment, Perry does appear on multiple rankings in the country that focus only on popular songs.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Everyone will be there — except Lydia, who Joseph dispatches on a nonsense errand to D.C.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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The sequel has more glamour, more trouble and maybe a bit too much nonsense 1 Comments The first Simple Favor, from 2018, was a playful, shallow mystery most notable for casting the lovely, languid Blake Lively as a cynical, devious clothes horse named Emily Nelson.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That's much higher than with other infectious diseases, such as Ebola with an R naught of 2.—
Alyson Hurt,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2025
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That's for naught if conservatives tank the bill first.—
Hans Nichols,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Hefty Ultra Strong with Fabuloso Watermelon Scent The Hefty brand just made trash day a whole lot sweeter!—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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Officers eventually tracked down Figueroa in the building's trash room, and drove him out with pepper spray, according to the affidavit.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Many Red Sox fans have had it up to here with that building-for-the-future claptrap, so much so that expectations were scary low coming into the 2024 season.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
31 July 2024
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“Straw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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