ticks

plural of tick

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Recent Examples of ticks People who find ticks are urged to submit them to state or university tick identification programs. Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ticks
Noun
  • Hold each other’s hands and inhale slowly for 4 seconds, hold for 7 and exhale for 8 seconds together.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This should have created a GRB lasting mere seconds, however.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All 15 episodes, about 50 minutes each, are streaming.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Bonneville, sitting behind her, grabbed her hand for the last 15 minutes and didn’t let go.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Latin rhythms blend with Caribbean, American, and European beats.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Music supervisor Matt Biffa relishes more than a few needle drops catered to scandalous character beats that only enrich this viewing experience.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The winners will measure their edge in nanoseconds and act before others can react.
    Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The project team led by researcher Chang Jun from CETC’s Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology highlighted that hypersonic cooperative strike systems demand inter-platform time synchronization with accuracy better than 10 nanoseconds.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • And sleep-tracker rings that are worn on your finger use body temperature, body movement, heart rate, and heart rate variability (fluctuations in the time between heartbeats) to gauge sleep quality.
    Stacey Colino, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Though the movie is accessible to new fans, there are plenty of winks and nods for diehards who can understand what might seem, to the uninitiated, like cheesy moments—a cringeworthy English rap verse, a scene parodying the product placement in K-dramas—as self-aware jokes.
    Yvonne Kim, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Olivier Rousteing, creative director, Balmain Creative director of Balmain since 2011, Rousteing has revitalized the house with his bold, opulent designs, blending modern glamour with winks to the legacy of founder Pierre Balmain.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are dessert items such as frozen custard, shakes, malts and other seasonal items.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The business took off after expanding its product line into snacks including protein chips, pizza and shakes.
    Simone Melvin, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As with any career as long as his, there have been moments when perhaps his aesthetic wasn’t so aligned with where fashion was going, but mention that and Roversi will gently put it to one side.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • So, to observe them, astronomers rely on stellar occultations — moments when an object passes between them and a background star.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Ticks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticks. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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