window

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Recent Examples of window Demand has been so strong, in fact, that United already extended the operational window for the route. Zach Wichter, USA Today, 10 May 2026 While nuclear issues would be negotiated during a 30-day window, Tehran rejected demands to dismantle its nuclear facilities and suspend uranium enrichment for 20 years, the report said. Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 May 2026 Others may use hollow pipes, tubes, window ledges or even sliding door tracks (a favorite site for the grass-carrying wasp). Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026 The painting’s gigantic walnut frame resembled a window set into a niche. Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for window
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Noun
  • The time lag breaks momentum, and people who are unfamiliar with design begin to settle.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The device works by comparing the time lag between two beams of light traveling through the fiber optic cable in the spiraling coils and back.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There was noticeable and annoying lag and sluggishness in the Windows desktop and Windows Explorer, not even counting Chrome or Office, with apps taking some 10 seconds to even open.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Ken Foster, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, said there is typically a 3- to 6-month lag between an energy price shock and an increase in retail food prices.
    Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Chapman ended up getting turned around and tagged out, but his pause allowed Devers to score.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 9 May 2026
  • Bass, after a brief pause, also said yes.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • The chef Eric Ripert and his partner, Maguy Le Coze, understand that space and time are as much luxuries as the commitment to craft and decades of dedication that give each plate here a consummate gleam.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Each of the treatment rooms is named for a different flower or herb, and inside, that specific fragrance fills the space.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Sow cilantro seeds at intervals in spring and late summer to provide a continuous supply of tasty foliage followed by the beneficial blooms.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
  • If polyps are removed, the follow-up interval varies depending on the number, size, and type of polyps.
    Holly Burns, Time, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • But the core disputes were left unresolved, and, in the interim, Iran gained time to rebuild its weapons arsenals and defenses, preparing for a potential wider conflict.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • She was replaced in the interim by Hoda Kotb, who previously exited the show in 2025 after nearly 20 years.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Many of the bacteria at least partially survived, which helps to test one of the parameters for the theory of panspermia—that life on Earth originated somewhere else and was brought here on an asteroid or other interspace body.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • Square Lake looks suspiciously like a comma.
    Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Basically, this means a long, wavy line of thunderstorms—which can be seen trailing down from the low-pressure area in a classic comma shape on weather maps.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026

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“Window.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/window. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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