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Recent Examples of tuft
Whitefish salad prickling with chile and festooned with great tufts of cilantro.
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Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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.
—Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
Mountain lions also don’t have tufts of fur on their faces or white markings on the back of their ears like bobcats do.
—Joseph Hernandez
august 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2025
The terrain is a mix of rocky crags, steep mountains, and Hudson River farmland, most of which is shrouded in tufts of hardwoods that turn it on each fall.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
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Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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.
—Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
Mountain lions also don’t have tufts of fur on their faces or white markings on the back of their ears like bobcats do.
—Joseph Hernandez
august 1, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2025
The terrain is a mix of rocky crags, steep mountains, and Hudson River farmland, most of which is shrouded in tufts of hardwoods that turn it on each fall.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tuft
Noun
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Oct. 2025
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Lorenzo Di Cola caught the moon suspended above a cloudbank above the tranquil hills near the city of L'Aquila, Italy, with the distant forms of the Rocca Calascio Castle and Santa Maria della Pietà church visible on the horizon.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Officials identified the trail camera footage from the Dhofar mountains as the first time Arabian leopards had been seen preying on rock hyrax on video.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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According to National Geographic, about 374 climbers from 49 countries have scaled the mountain this year.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Robertson then returned to the mound for the seventh — and immediately put two on.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The jar was then sealed and tucked into an ant mound to ferment overnight.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Tuft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tuft. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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