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Recent Examples of tufts
Ungainly with their beams and pipes, the dredges look like tufts of Rust Belt infrastructure that have blown loose and drifted westward and finally tumbled onto this distant sea.
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Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Colorful knits, tufts of shearling, and of course, classic Uggs are your go-to here.
—Kerry Pieri, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2026
All that was left was a scattering of blood and a few tufts of fur.
—Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
But it is most easily identified by the distinctive ear tufts and stark white bib under the chin.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
Spring in the South is wildflower season, when the countrysides burst with tufts of brightly colored blooms.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2025
Pennywise first rears his Bozo-esque orange tufts in 1986's IT, a horror epic about a group of outcasts, the Losers' Club, who unite to confront the shapeshifting, child-devouring entity that's been haunting Derry for hundreds of years.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Little birds and forest rodents pulled out tufts of fur for their nests, revealing the clean bone beneath.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
Showcasing realistic wood branches between the tufts of faux greenery, use this as a minimalist mantelpiece or a layering option in your holiday tablescape.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2025
Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Colorful knits, tufts of shearling, and of course, classic Uggs are your go-to here.
—Kerry Pieri, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2026
All that was left was a scattering of blood and a few tufts of fur.
—Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
But it is most easily identified by the distinctive ear tufts and stark white bib under the chin.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
Spring in the South is wildflower season, when the countrysides burst with tufts of brightly colored blooms.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2025
Pennywise first rears his Bozo-esque orange tufts in 1986's IT, a horror epic about a group of outcasts, the Losers' Club, who unite to confront the shapeshifting, child-devouring entity that's been haunting Derry for hundreds of years.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Little birds and forest rodents pulled out tufts of fur for their nests, revealing the clean bone beneath.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
Showcasing realistic wood branches between the tufts of faux greenery, use this as a minimalist mantelpiece or a layering option in your holiday tablescape.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tufts
Noun
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In the hills, in the hollows, up the draws and the old dirt logging roads, hidden in the chaparral above the fog line, growing and selling weed became a way of life, woven into the community and its economy.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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The wheels, for example, are oversized so the suitcase is easy to drag over bricks, curbs, dirt, or up steep hills.—
The Editors,
Outside,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With a thick white-gray coat that blends into their surroundings, these reclusive felines live on high, rocky mountains with some of the harshest conditions on Earth, according to the WWF.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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At the noon event, Sladek is expected to read from his memoir, which recounts his escape from persecution into the Tatra mountains along Slovakia’s border with Poland.—
Bruce Finley,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Transfer to pastry bag fitted with star tip and pipe 8 mounds over holes on top of baba.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, the tiniest of the land’s inhabitants, the termite, work steadily to build up mounds of fungus and sand, the foundation of the lagoon’s precious islands.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Tufts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tufts. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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