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of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color
the cheese maker told us that the best Parmesan cheeses are straw, not white, in color
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Recent Examples of straw
John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Expect bamboo everything, from edible garnishes to sustainable straws and bathroom TP.
—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
Lucky Benson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
The nation's largest auto finance company has dropped its lawsuit against auto dealer Russ Darrow over loans to what turned out to be straw buyers of luxury vehicles destined for China via a con man's business.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2018
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Noun
King, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud, tried to take advantage of the city’s 8-to-1 matching campaign funds program with a straw donor scheme.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Expect bamboo everything, from edible garnishes to sustainable straws and bathroom TP.
—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Inside the building’s stucco walls are straw bales, a material championed for its sustainability by Harrison and the artistic community who built the house.
—Lucky Benson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
The nation's largest auto finance company has dropped its lawsuit against auto dealer Russ Darrow over loans to what turned out to be straw buyers of luxury vehicles destined for China via a con man's business.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straw
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Much like that nest with the strands of Sidney’s blond hair, Masear’s biography is woven into the narrative.Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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The trio presented a compelling visual image: The two men, wearing dark ties, beatnik goatees and serious expressions, flanked Ms. Travers, whose blond hair framed noble cheekbones.Jim Farber, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Apu Gomes/Getty Images Video shows that by 12:51 p.m., an enormous plume of smoke was billowing across the Palisades.Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
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Now, the neighborhood, one of the few affordable ones left in California, is under a threat of gentrification before the smoke has even cleared.David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
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The Sycamore's true pièce de résistance, though, is its rear bunk room, which offers bed space for two while serving as a useful office space during daytime hours.New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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Photo : Molly Culver The primary bedroom Photo : Molly Culver There are six bedrooms, plus a couple of bunk rooms, each with a mix of antique and contemporary furnishings.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
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Begin by pitching your songs to smaller, independent playlists or by contacting curators directly.Justin Grome, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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While 143—now titled 1432—and the several singles that were spun off of the project are nowhere to be found on the charts in the United Kingdom at the moment, Perry does appear on multiple rankings in the country that focus only on popular songs.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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That ain't the show, the show is the nonsense that's happening in between John Wick.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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But these will come to naught unless the government can see them clearly—and find the strength to take advantage of them.Robert M. Danin, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
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Scientists use a metric called the basic reproduction number or reproduction value — referred to as R0 and pronounced R naught — to rate how transmissible or contagious a disease is.Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2021
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The broken furniture, old clothing, drug paraphernalia and stacks of lottery tickets inside would eventually become 22 truckloads of trash.ProPublica, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2025
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Nothing forced him to talk a little trash before the last game.Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Many Red Sox fans have had it up to here with that building-for-the-future claptrap, so much so that expectations were scary low coming into the 2024 season.Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
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Is there a remedy for claptrap like the BMJ article?Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
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“Straw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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