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Recent Examples of air-dry
Clara McMahon, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Allow it to air-dry and repeat until the stain is gone.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Adjective
For care, the brand recommends using a gentle machine cycle with cold water, then laying flat to air-dry.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Allow it to air-dry and repeat until the stain is gone.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
Be sure to air-dry the topper before making your bed.
—Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
—Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air-dry
Adjective
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But Lawson looked off the pace in qualifying in Melbourne for the season opener, starting 18th before crashing out in the race as Red Bull gambled to leave him out on dry tyres when rain arrived.—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The driest years resulted in dangerously low water levels in Gatun Lake that made canal operations difficult, including in 1998, 2016 and most recently 2023-2024.—
Karina Garcia,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Protesters and street medics have also used a baking soda solution consisting of a teaspoon of baking soda for every 8.5 ounces of water.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Creating and delivering a short film to accompany these new tracks only proves how much of a story is baked into them, and how moved Ariana felt to not only tell that story, but bring her fans into it, in more ways than one.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Miami surged ahead by 14 points in the second quarter, but that lead evaporated and the game went to the fourth tied at 83 before a group of reserves led a furious 16-3 fourth quarter spurt.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2025
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In 1974 Stephen Hawking realized that black holes must slowly evaporate by emitting particles that eventually deplete the black hole down to nothing.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The good news is that the friendship doesn’t have to shrivel up and die.—
Carolyn L. Todd,
SELF,
28 Feb. 2025
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The home run rate shriveled to 0.6 per nine innings, a third of his career numbers coming into the season.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.—
Tribune Content Agency,
oregonlive,
27 Nov. 2022
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Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.—
Camille Fine,
USA TODAY,
22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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Encountering one requires a deliberate journey into the arid interior of Australia — a habitat as remote as the species itself.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Global lithium demand, which is expected to grow by 40 times by 2040, could outpace the limited annual rain that supplies freshwater to the arid Lithium Triangle.—
Nidhi Sharma,
NBC news,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
6 Dec. 2023
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Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.—
Brad Leithauser,
WSJ,
10 Nov. 2023
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“Air-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air-dry. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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