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Recent Examples of nib
The nib occupies a cosy space between firm and malleable, which makes light work of achieving a knife-edge flick.
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Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2024
The Best of Beauty Award winner is practically a toolbox for your arches, including a mini toothbrush for fluffing, a slanted nib for defining, long and short spoolies for taming, and a tiny spatula for at-home lifting and laminating (if that’s your jam).
—Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 11 June 2024
Low lighting protects the turtles, and the menu offers only seasonal choices, including gluten-free breadfruit pancakes that promise to be the next Manhattan superfood craze, with chocolate nib tapenade as a sweet treat.
—Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
The company’s signature bitter drinking chocolate, a rich and dense concoction served in an espresso-size cup, is made with freshly ground cacao nibs, lightly sweetened and finished with oat milk.
—Caitie Kelly Gisela Williams Julekha Dash Catherine Hong Devorah Lev-Tov, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
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Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2024
The Best of Beauty Award winner is practically a toolbox for your arches, including a mini toothbrush for fluffing, a slanted nib for defining, long and short spoolies for taming, and a tiny spatula for at-home lifting and laminating (if that’s your jam).
—Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 11 June 2024
Low lighting protects the turtles, and the menu offers only seasonal choices, including gluten-free breadfruit pancakes that promise to be the next Manhattan superfood craze, with chocolate nib tapenade as a sweet treat.
—Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
The company’s signature bitter drinking chocolate, a rich and dense concoction served in an espresso-size cup, is made with freshly ground cacao nibs, lightly sweetened and finished with oat milk.
—Caitie Kelly Gisela Williams Julekha Dash Catherine Hong Devorah Lev-Tov, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nib
Noun
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His tiny pink tongue hung out of his mouth much of the time.—
Maya Salam,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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The new species was identified by its DNA, mouth, toe shape, finger shape, skin texture and other subtle physical features, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Bailey Berg is a freelance travel writer and editor, who covers breaking news, trends, tips, transportation, sustainability, the outdoors, and more.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
14 Feb. 2025
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As the makeup tips flooded in, Hannah was so grateful to everyone offering their help.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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This bike's fairing is less angular, and the cowling doesn't flow as naturally into the rest of the bodywork, but the signature round headlight is there, and thankfully Enfield eschews the beak that seems to have been requisite on adventure bikes for so many years.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Jan. 2025
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With its distinctive brown body, white head and yellow beak, the bird is easily recognizable.—
Jeanine Santucci,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Dec. 2024
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Tilda Swinton is planning to take a break from acting after her trip to the Berlin Film Festival comes to an end.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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The big-league pitching staff is not promising — FanGraphs noted the Sox bullpen is the worst the website’s formula has ever measured at this point in the offseason — and outside of Luis Robert, who could be traded any day from now until the end of July, the hitters aren’t very scary.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The video had no sound and did not capture a muzzle flash, only figures appearing to scatter around the same time, a police witness acknowledged.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2025
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Jabbar then shoots from behind an airbag at close range and the flash of the muzzle is visible.—
JACK BROOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Jan. 2025
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Eric Kohn, Green detailed the surreal process of working at the apex of the advertising industry.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
8 Feb. 2025
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And so a lot of our voters would at least —that’s why Presidents are usually at the apex of their popularity upon Inauguration.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2025
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These high-confidence marks were located on four tibiae, one mandible, one humerus, and two long bone fragments.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
23 Jan. 2025
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With dodging, cricket fled in a circular movement that put the crickets behind the ants to avoid their deadly mandibles.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Jan. 2025
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Defying the law would bring no real legal consequences for the people involved—which is why the Trump administration is already thumbing its nose at court orders.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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That’s all fair enough, but, wow, is this clunky show on the nose with all that stuff.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Nib.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nib. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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