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Recent Examples of air-dry
Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2024
Instead, lay the bag flat on a clean, dry towel or a drying rack, rotating it if necessary, and allow it to air-dry completely before using it.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Adjective
Saturate the area again with the oxygen-bleach solution and allow it to air-dry.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2024
Instead, lay the bag flat on a clean, dry towel or a drying rack, rotating it if necessary, and allow it to air-dry completely before using it.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
Verb
Be sure to air-dry the topper before making your bed.
—Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air-dry
Adjective
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In this equatorial zone, what’s now Mallorca would have experienced very wet and very dry seasons.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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That minimal percentage is caused by extremely dry air that circulates throughout the cabin at 30,000 feet.Sara Button, AFAR Media, 19 Dec. 2024
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Flavors of toffee, baking spices, wood spice notes of cinnamon, and toasted oak, complemented by a touch of dark chocolate, dominate the palate.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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There’s some murkiness about where the recipe originated; both baking brands While Lily and Martha White claim to have pioneered the beloved bread.Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2024
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Though imperceptible to humans, 1 degree can make the difference between bitterly cold, dry gusts of arctic air freezing the lake over or evaporating its warm surface waters.Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2024
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The resulting mixture is sprayed through a nozzle, which evaporates the solvent leaving spherical particles behind that are then electrochemically treated the same way as the ground char.Alex Knapp, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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On the lower end of skills and pay, apparel employment shriveled as Southern California garment makers focused on fashion and small quantities, eliminating tens of thousands of manual labor jobs.Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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This fact is particularly true if the item in question is shriveled, moldy, or smelly.Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
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Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
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To withstand the extreme heat and arid conditions, crops in the Salton Sea air basin need to be watered regularly.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities—roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents—make occasional appearances.Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
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Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
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“Air-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air-dry. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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