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Recent Examples of lighter
The phone aesthetic was based on 1960s Japanese lighters, and the paperlike electronic displays aim to mimic shoji screens.
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Sophie Charara, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2024
Amazon is a bevy of such cool gadgets—a tool for anything and everything—including organizers that wrangle appliance cords, rechargeable lighters, and even cleaning products that get into the tightest of spots.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024
Bic, the company best known for ballpoint pens, razors, and lighters, has just revealed a collaboration that no one could have possibly had on their 2024 bingo cards.
—Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
Those items included lighters, bottles and plastic bags.
—Sam Leveridge, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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Sophie Charara, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2024
Amazon is a bevy of such cool gadgets—a tool for anything and everything—including organizers that wrangle appliance cords, rechargeable lighters, and even cleaning products that get into the tightest of spots.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024
Bic, the company best known for ballpoint pens, razors, and lighters, has just revealed a collaboration that no one could have possibly had on their 2024 bingo cards.
—Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
Those items included lighters, bottles and plastic bags.
—Sam Leveridge, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lighter
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While other Time Warner executives would show more ambition in public, Parsons kept things on an even keel.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
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However, logistics employment has managed to stay on an even keel even as companies like FedEx, UPS and DHL make their cuts.Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
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Columnist Jenn Harris, with tasting assistance from deputy food editor Betty Hallock, went to 11 different fast food restaurants to sample and rank chicken tenders.Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
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With a limited menu of chicken tenders, a few sandwiches and a small handful of sides, the KFC spinoff brings new flavors to the table in the form of dipping and sipping.Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Dec. 2024
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Supplies for the season are brought in via a massive barge from Vancouver while fresh produce is brought in weekly.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Sugano also throws a cutter, slider, splitter, sinker and curve.Chuck Murr, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The pair of figures came into and out of focus; in some passages the surface had hyper-similitude, in others a rougher, grooved surface, betraying the involvement of a CNC cutter.Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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But to get there, the spacecraft has taken a spiraling route through the inner solar system, using the gravitational tug of Earth (once), Venus (twice), and Mercury (six times) to get itself on the right course at the right speed to end up in orbit around Mercury.Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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The melting occurred as the moon was moving away from the Earth, the authors say, when the planet’s constant gravitational tugs warped the moon in a way that caused it to super-heat.Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
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The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary of the US Air Force and nonprofit organization.Michelle Watson, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
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But the party did not give to its own Black auxiliary: the African American Caucus of Mecklenburg County. Between the lines: The party officers and the African American Caucus of Mecklenburg County do not have a functioning relationship, Axios learned through speaking with board members.Alexandria Sands, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
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But though the ship was seaworthy and well-stocked with cargo and supplies, its lifeboat was missing and not a single person was aboard.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
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Expected to be a title contender, the Bucks have started 2-7 and have no lifeboats.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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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 31 Dec. 2024.
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