variants
or accouterments
as in equipment
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
has all the accoutrements that the home pastry chef could ever want
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Recent Examples of accoutrements
Fill the spaces with accoutrements of your choice (see below).
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Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
With 11 cuts—from Prime and Dry-Aged to Wagyu—and 15 accoutrements and sauces to accompany them, you are bound to have a beefier flavor experience than at the steakhouse down the street.
—Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Yukon Gold Potato Blini These potato blini based on a recipe from Thomas Keller are fluffy and light, encouraging you to go all out with the accoutrements.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
The wrapping-pro says drawers can also allow for neat storage for the rest of your wrapping accoutrements like ribbons, bows, and gift tags.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
Feel free to set up a drink space with all the accouterments, from glassware to garnishes, that guests can help themselves to.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
The festival grounds had some of the usual accoutrements, including stacks of loudspeakers and an area where DJs would otherwise use digital turntables and a sound mixer to play trance music.
—NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
My father had the right accoutrements for every occasion.
—Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
The scientific accoutrements on hand will include incubators, freezers, bio-fabrication banks, and centrifuges.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2024
Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
With 11 cuts—from Prime and Dry-Aged to Wagyu—and 15 accoutrements and sauces to accompany them, you are bound to have a beefier flavor experience than at the steakhouse down the street.
—Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Advertisement Yukon Gold Potato Blini These potato blini based on a recipe from Thomas Keller are fluffy and light, encouraging you to go all out with the accoutrements.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
The wrapping-pro says drawers can also allow for neat storage for the rest of your wrapping accoutrements like ribbons, bows, and gift tags.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
Feel free to set up a drink space with all the accouterments, from glassware to garnishes, that guests can help themselves to.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
The festival grounds had some of the usual accoutrements, including stacks of loudspeakers and an area where DJs would otherwise use digital turntables and a sound mixer to play trance music.
—NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
My father had the right accoutrements for every occasion.
—Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
The scientific accoutrements on hand will include incubators, freezers, bio-fabrication banks, and centrifuges.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accoutrements
Noun
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His son, Shaw, joined other fire victims in filing a lawsuit last month against Southern California Edison, accusing the utility of negligence, violation of health and safety codes and not maintaining its vegetation and equipment.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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The curtains to the execution chamber closed at 6:29 p.m. Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the gas flowed for 18 minutes, and that monitoring equipment showed Frazier's heartbeat stopped 13 minutes after the process began.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the ballplayer stuff, that was just icing on the cake.—
Daniel Brown,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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My oak trees are covered in green lichens and light green mossy stuff.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Along with these crimson accessories, the actor prepared for her next performance with a venti-sized coffee and cell phone in hand, and also protected herself from the cold with a short charcoal gray coat and unexpected barrel jeans in a mustard tone.—
María Munsuri,
Glamour,
24 Dec. 2024
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Designed with portability and sustainability in mind, these accessories support a range of activities, from sketching ideas to shooting content.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Now the light bulb section at the hardware store has become so daunting that even bringing the empty box from the last bulbs doesn’t help.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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But Meta’s latest expansion into consumer hardware with its Ray-Ban smart glasses shows promise.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Operating from advanced facilities in Indianapolis and Stuttgart, Ganassi's partnerships include prestigious collaborations with Honda and General Motors among others.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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The most vulnerable targets are small businesses, organizations, and particularly healthcare facilities that cannot afford to make large expenditures in defensive developing cybersecurity technology like artificial intelligence.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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With Vance’s legislative leadership, Burch’s political advocacy, and a wide-reaching conservative media apparatus, this reimagined Catholic right has strengthened in just a few years.—
Liam Adams,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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Investigators believe that the suspect constructed an apparatus that fired some type of projectile that caused the injury, police said.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Accoutrements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accoutrements. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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