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Recent Examples of tuft
Unlike most cirrus clouds, however, fibratus clouds do not have tufts or hooks at the end, and the strands are clearly separate from one another.
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Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
Alf — a contraction of the designer’s first and last names — is a unisex line that aims to bring some fresh energy into the segment with tongue-in-cheek symbols and unexpected materials, like her baby head rings sprouting tufts of colorful fake fur.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2025
The tomato was ripe, the onion slices added bite and the tuft of alfalfa sprouts was fresh and earthy.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
Principally, they were preoccupied with each other—with the tufts on each other’s bodies, with their own ripening smells.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
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Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
Alf — a contraction of the designer’s first and last names — is a unisex line that aims to bring some fresh energy into the segment with tongue-in-cheek symbols and unexpected materials, like her baby head rings sprouting tufts of colorful fake fur.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2025
The tomato was ripe, the onion slices added bite and the tuft of alfalfa sprouts was fresh and earthy.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
Principally, they were preoccupied with each other—with the tufts on each other’s bodies, with their own ripening smells.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tuft
Noun
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On the screen were images of rolling hills, deer frolicking in the forest, and waves crashing on the shore.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The post also includes videos of Twiggs skiing down a mountain.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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The evening after Jîna’s death, on assignment for the newspaper Ham-Mihan, my friend and colleague Elaheh Mohammadi drove eight hours overnight, through winding mountains and narrow roads, to Saqqez, Jîna’s hometown in Kurdistan.—
Fatemeh Jamalpour,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These enormous mounds of debris left over from the feasts contained thousands of bones.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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That left right-hander Connor Brogdon – fresh off the plane from Salt Lake – on the mound when the Mariners scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Tuft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tuft. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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