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Recent Examples of lighter
Cult has already tried its hand at candles and cannabis paraphernalia, even Zippo lighters and umbrellas.
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Jessica Binns, Sourcing Journal, 17 Dec. 2024
This year’s torch lighters include soldiers, medical personnel and civilians who saved lives on Oct. 7.
—Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
Many would have seen the sad sea turtle with a straw embedded deep into its nostril, or the albatross chicks having been fed bottle caps and cigarette lighters by their unknowing parents.
—New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024
In Aslan’s bedroom, his father, Nidal, pointed to items laid out neatly on his son’s bunk bed — a baseball cap, cigarette lighters, a piece of clothing blotted with blood.
—Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
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Jessica Binns, Sourcing Journal, 17 Dec. 2024
This year’s torch lighters include soldiers, medical personnel and civilians who saved lives on Oct. 7.
—Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
Many would have seen the sad sea turtle with a straw embedded deep into its nostril, or the albatross chicks having been fed bottle caps and cigarette lighters by their unknowing parents.
—New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024
In Aslan’s bedroom, his father, Nidal, pointed to items laid out neatly on his son’s bunk bed — a baseball cap, cigarette lighters, a piece of clothing blotted with blood.
—Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lighter
Noun
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The decision helped to mend the broken community, putting all players on a more even keel, and accelerated the adoption of the latest entry.—
Veerender Jubbal,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2025
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After Otto keels dead on their first evening together, both families discover something shocking: Neither has any money, and each had married the other hoping to salvage their fortunes.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
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Christie’s won the tender after a bidding war with Sotheby’s.—
George Nelson for ArtNews,
Robb Report,
22 Feb. 2025
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The tender the Bears will have some decisions on is the restricted free-agent one.—
Kevin Fishbain,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Last winter, after a Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk crashed into the bay, the helicopter was lifted from 15 feet of water and stabilized on a barge.—
Kristina Davis,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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The top to-do item for Blue Origin is flying New Glenn again—and recovering the giant rocket's first stage by landing it on an autonomous landing barge (named Jacklyn for Bezos' mother).—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
12 Feb. 2025
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Harrison’s addition of a cutter and harder slider could aid him in his quest for more whiffs.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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The extent to which the federal government has been privatized across the board is rarely discussed, especially not by would-be cost cutters like Musk and Vought.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Astronomers discovered 51 Pegasi b by detecting a wobble in its star’s motion caused by the gravitational tug of the orbiting planet—a technique called the Doppler (or radial velocity) method.—
Dakotah Tyler,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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The 185-foot vessel, known as Yard Derrick 254, was guided into place by tug boats operating near the western tip of Shelter Island.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Bruno did not answer a question asking whether the lease is void under state laws governing board members’ conflicts at nonprofits and auxiliaries, and referred to the forensic examination delving into the station’s finances.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
13 Feb. 2025
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In the years since, eight First Nations and dozens of their coastal communities have participated in the search-and-rescue auxiliary.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
15 Feb. 2025
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The captain explains where to find life jackets, where the lifeboats are located, and how to respond in an emergency.—
Andrew Rosen,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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His lifeboat had struck the ship and capsized instantly.—
Joel Sams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Jan. 2025
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According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
11 Dec. 2024
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Another Washington's treaty ally, Japan, reported that a submarine and a rescue towboat of Russia on December 3 were sailing northward in the waters between two of the country's southwestern islands , a marginal sea of the Western .—
Ryan Chan,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Lighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lighter. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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