styles 1 of 2

plural of style

styles

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of style

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of styles
Noun
For more wooden kitchen tools to upgrade your cooking space, check out our favorite styles below with everything from measuring cups to mixing bowls, spice grinders, and more. Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025 Khaite’s Dallas design, first introduced in 2019 and typically reissued each season in new finishes, has become one of the label’s signature styles. Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025 The tools allow courses to be instantly translated and altered to fit many different learning styles and needs—including learners with disabilities, or those needing support in different languages. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025 Across the festival’s various sections, Matheson and her programming team have once again embraced a surprisingly broad collection of filmmakers and filmmaking styles. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025 Kids can play with different types of hair and outfit styles to customize their witch. Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
The British capital — which styles itself as a competitor to New York in the world of finance — recently slipped out of the top 20 markets for stock debuts, behind such titans as Oman and Mexico. Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025 Tube styles The single tube is a style that connects a tube to the diaphragm and splits into two before reaching the headset. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025 For instance, Jean styles a head scarf impeccably well. Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2025 Queen Letizia of Spain also styles the power suit for daytime royal engagements, favoring designers like Mango and Hugo Boss. Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for styles
Noun
  • Five buttons on top of the Envision are used to control the smart binoculars, switching between modes and turning the AR display on or off as needed.
    Tariq Malik, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Getting to shift modes is really enjoyable, especially live.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These methods, while less exacting, are also woefully undemocratic, allowing lawmakers to act independently from and against the interests of the American public.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For years, geologists have used biogeochemical methods — analyzing metal traces in plants and soils — to locate deposits.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Many other Big Tech companies also slashed their headcounts around that time as the pandemic receded and consumer demand trends changed.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The firings included staff at the agency’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control who track suicide trends and those in charge of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC journal that reports disease outbreaks to public health agencies nationwide.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When combined Robinson’s primal screams and the writing team’s knack for crafting slightly askew sentences that turn into dialogue earworms, the fake company names a potent blend of comedy that feels like it was always destined to define comedy in the 2020s.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Senate Bill 765, sponsored by GOP Senator Roger Niell, names the giant garter snake () as the state snake.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Keeping devices in your bag during the meal is about more than just manners.
    Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
  • There are so many different manners in which our teachers, staff, parents and community partners communicate.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ukraine is currently negotiating with its international partners to increase natural gas imports by about 30% as the winter approaches, according to energy minister Svitlana Grynchuk.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • As the concluding chapter of Wicked‘s big-screen adaptation approaches, Marissa Bode is opening up about how the movie does away with an ableist plot point.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Peterson hosts a regular show on BBC Radio 6 Music, founded the influential Acid Jazz and Brownswood Recordings labels, and in recent years began the We Out Here festival in Dorset, England.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And the startup not only attracts speculators directly on its website and mobile app, but also white labels its markets to brokers like Robinhood and Webull, adding liquidity and scale.
    Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This ensures our testing base spans different skin tones, genders, and dermatological conditions.
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For medium, mauve, berry, and rose tones are especially complementary.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Styles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/styles. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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