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Recent Examples of sill
Wiping down your sills, dropping your draperies off at the dry cleaner, and cleaning the windows from top-to-bottom will ensure your effort on the exterior isn’t done in vain but instead, promises your windows sparkle from the inside out.
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
The precious metal also features on the door sill tread plates, designed to look like gold bars, and there’s even a gold golf putter mounted to the underside of the trunk lid.
—Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
There’s more of Auric Goldfinger’s favorite precious metal inside the Phantom, including a gold finish on the air vents, organ stops, and speaker grilles, plus sill tread plates that resemble gold bars.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
The bigger icebergs get stuck on the sill, and other icebergs pile up behind them, in a great glacial traffic jam.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
The precious metal also features on the door sill tread plates, designed to look like gold bars, and there’s even a gold golf putter mounted to the underside of the trunk lid.
—Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
There’s more of Auric Goldfinger’s favorite precious metal inside the Phantom, including a gold finish on the air vents, organ stops, and speaker grilles, plus sill tread plates that resemble gold bars.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
The bigger icebergs get stuck on the sill, and other icebergs pile up behind them, in a great glacial traffic jam.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sill
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The centerpiece is a floor-to-ceiling bluestone fireplace that’s surrounded by huge windows, skylights, and wooden beams.Clio Chang, Curbed, 13 Dec. 2024
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Customer Razan Rashidi orders her tea with a celebratory phrase in Arabic, and the men manning the counter beam, telling her that on this day of liberation, tea for a fellow Syrian is free.Rob Schmitz, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
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The new store is said to be a big priority for the brand, and has been built around creative director Anthony Vaccarello’s vision of blending raw materials such as a black wood staircase, marble displays, corduroy concrete and black mirror walls with more classic elements.Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
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Cave pearls are known to form around a nucleus, which can be made from a number of materials, such as rocky fragments, mud pieces, blue algae, wood shreds and animal bones.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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This season, Myers has battled through a left wrist injury that’s required him to wear a brace.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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The Cleveland Clinic states that spondylolisthesis can typically be managed with rest, over-the-counter medications, corticosteroids, physical therapy or wearing a brace.Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Large numbers of new people coming into the home and descending on piles of food and Christmas decorations easily trigger anxious dogs − and worst-case scenario, someone could get bit or your dog could eat something dangerous.Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Against another wall is a ceiling-high pile of sacks filled with white powder.Greg Myre, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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In addition to causing discomfort, shin splints can also be debilitating.Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
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After a medical reevaluation Thursday, Ball was able to remove his wrist splint and was scheduled to return to dribbling Tuesday.Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2024
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The report said the size of each of the two automakers’ stakes in the new holding company and other financial details of the merger are yet to be decided.Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Toyota has taken stakes in Subaru Corp., Suzuki Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp., creating a powerhouse of brands backed by its top-notch credit rating.Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2024
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The update features new functionality such as Toggle Holds and mapping stick moment to button presses.Steven Aquino, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Officials said her body was located in a wooded area and was covered with leaves and sticks and had extensive head trauma.Stepheny Price, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Musk’s posts and warnings were now coming minutes, or even seconds, apart.Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Nevertheless, that didn’t stop the onslaught of comments following Pereira’s post.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Sill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sill. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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