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Recent Examples of miter
This stand can hold up to 400 pounds, which is plenty for a miter saw.
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Matt Jancer, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2024
Air bubblers on the miter gates can clear debris and ice.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
Step 2: Make Legs and Sand Cut one end of each leg at a 27-degree angle using a miter saw.
—Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
That’s dangerous—the board can kick back—so use a miter gauge to chop the pieces to length.
—Paul Steiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
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Matt Jancer, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2024
Air bubblers on the miter gates can clear debris and ice.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
Step 2: Make Legs and Sand Cut one end of each leg at a 27-degree angle using a miter saw.
—Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
That’s dangerous—the board can kick back—so use a miter gauge to chop the pieces to length.
—Paul Steiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
See all Example Sentences for miter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miter
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Instead of the usual thousands, only 10 guests per cardinal were allowed in St. Peter's Basilica as the pope gave the men their ring and traditional red hat, known as a biretta.NBC News, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2020
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Cardinals from Brunei and the Philippines could not travel and will receive their ring and biretta from a papal delegate.NBC News, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2020
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Our team in the States have been hard at work peeking under the hood.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Front fenders are punctuated by purposeful and attractive vents that hint at the performance lurking under the hood.Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
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In addition to his priestly robes, Pohlmeier wore a violet zucchetto, or skull cap, and a golden pectoral cross.Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
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After a couple of minutes, he was given his own zucchetto, and left the stage, to applause.Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
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Couldn’t imagine the owner of San Francisco Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star restaurant Atelier Crenn and one of the most respected toques in the world doing anything less, right?DeMarco Williams, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Stan Michalski is the top toque in the Victorian house kitchen.Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
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Rather than sweeping robes and turbans, Scherzinger spends most of the play barefoot, wearing a simple black slip.Barbara Schuler, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2024
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Nasrallah, who often invoked both God and guns with a distinctive lisp, wore a black turban signifying his descent from the Prophet Muhammad.Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
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Chicago police said Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, is accused of shooting an unidentified 39-year-old man who was wearing a kippah, the Jewish skullcap, on Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, in the city's Rogers Park district.Patrick Smith, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Previously, pilots were equipped with an EEG device, traditionally a skullcap with electrodes touching the scalp and wires leading to the computer.Dana Mackenzie, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Atay was born in 1934, near the Black Sea port town of İnebolu—the city where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic, had donned a jaunty Panama hat to give a speech decrying the barbarism of the fez and other Ottoman fashions.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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Louboutin, wearing a fez, brought Natasha Poonawalla in a face-framing Harris Reed creation.Miles Socha, WWD, 6 Oct. 2024
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She was last seen wearing a black crop top shirt with white lettering, blue jeans with rips in them and a dark purple bonnet.Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2024
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Some modern-day Native American leaders have received war bonnets in ceremonies accompanied by prayers and songs.Janelle Ash, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Miter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miter. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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