warbonnet

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Recent Examples of warbonnet Love is a War Song follows pop star Avery Fox, who is reeling from a backlash after posing in a Native American warbonnet on the cover of Rolling Stone. EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Disrespecting the warbonnet is a grievous wrong and dishonors the likes of all who earned them with pride, like Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face. Ruth Hopkins, Teen Vogue, 12 Nov. 2019 This week on the @natgeo Instagram, a swimmer navigates Devil's Eye Spring, meerkats embrace in Botswana, and a mosshead warbonnet peeks its head out of the neck of a bottle. Steve Winter, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warbonnet
Noun
  • The Chicago Fire Department responded and had to get their hose streams into the hood of the truck, under which flames were raging.
    Kris Habermehl, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Underneath the hood As detailed here extensively in recent weeks, the surface-level steadiness in the S & P 500 is a curious result of fast-moving opposing currents underneath.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • American Canyon police said the rider was not licensed to operate the motorcycle and was not wearing a helmet at the time of the fatal collision.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Police said the collision happened as the bus was making a right turn at the intersection, and Roberts approached on his bike without a helmet.
    Timia Cobb Breaking News Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There were crinoline explosions and Panama teardrops, tiny little fascinators and huge brimmed sunbonnets.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 30 May 2017
Noun
  • The bonnet-and-cloak outfit was largely inspired by a can of Old Dutch cleaning solution.
    Will Croxton, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The company says its solution allows solar panels to be integrated directly into the hood, bonnet, and roof of a vehicle.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Singh, who would be our local guide, always wore the five traits of a pious Sikh man — uncut hair (symbolizing strength and holiness and topped by the identifying turban), a steel bracelet, wooden comb, sheathed dagger and a baggy undergarment dating back to the Sikhs’ warrior days on horses.
    Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
  • With Khamenei’s regime, and his life, on the line, the resistance instinct must be warring with the survival instinct beneath that black turban.
    Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This deepfake video is the latest shared by the administration that has drawn criticism, after an artificial video of Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office (which never happened) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Also in the segment, Michael Che commented on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who has overseen harsh immigration policies, celebrating her 54th birthday at a Mexican restaurant and at one point wearing a sombrero.
    William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Sutton Foster crochets Hugh Jackman a marching-band shako for the occasion.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In black-and-white school photos from the early ’60s, Trump can be seen in boots, sash and a plumed shako, like some Austro-Hungarian infantryman.
    ROBERT F. WORTH, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • Newspapers kept running a photograph of an internationally famous heiress toting a machine gun while wearing a saucy beret.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Kardashian paired her velvet set with sheer stockings, patent leather pumps, a beret, and cat-eye sunglasses.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 5 Feb. 2026

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“Warbonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warbonnet. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.

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