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Recent Examples of swatches
Malarkey created it using a pale lime zest polish on most nails, with abstract swatches on the others.
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Rebecca Norris, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
For the holiday season, Groves is offering up a gift box that includes swatches and ideas for a custom pair of gifted shoes, based on the recipient’s personality and preferences.
—Katie Abel, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
Browsing through the color swatches of Joybird is like looking through a kaleidoscope.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025
Review fabric swatches in your home’s natural light, and don’t rush measurements.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Apply large swatches on multiple walls and observe them at different times of day, under both natural and artificial light.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Fabric swatches are much the same.
—Corey Buhay, Outside, 15 Sep. 2025
Rebecca Norris, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
For the holiday season, Groves is offering up a gift box that includes swatches and ideas for a custom pair of gifted shoes, based on the recipient’s personality and preferences.
—Katie Abel, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
Browsing through the color swatches of Joybird is like looking through a kaleidoscope.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025
Review fabric swatches in your home’s natural light, and don’t rush measurements.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Apply large swatches on multiple walls and observe them at different times of day, under both natural and artificial light.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Fabric swatches are much the same.
—Corey Buhay, Outside, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swatches
Noun
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While there are plenty of bandages, wraps, and tapes, extra items such as an emergency thermal blanket, flashlights, sting relief, burn compression, and other items elevate this kit to support a variety of solutions.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Jan. 2026
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Her source material is a pair of cassette tapes recorded by Dueñez in the ’90s, two of a series of bootlegs that the sonidero and his wife sold at the flea market along the Puente del Papa, a bridge connecting Monterrey’s prosperous city center with its mountainside slums.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The task force usually passes out kits that include fentanyl detection strips inside plastic sandwich bags, along with sterile water and little paper condiment cups, which are used to perform the test; illicit pills should be crushed first before testing.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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The second dream was about her legs being cut into strips like pieces of flank steak.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Swatches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swatches. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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