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Recent Examples of disk
Pat the dough into a 4-inch disk, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour (and up to 48 hours).
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
Phosphorus stars are predominantly found in the Milky Way’s inner galactic halo and thick disk, indicating that their distribution is not location-specific, Maren Brauner, a PhD student at Spain’s Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna, told me via email.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Remember, the State gave De Luca, Melissa's trial attorney, a disk containing the dark, unreadable X-rays before trial.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
After this process, those disks would bulge or depress in response to a magnetic field.
—Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
Phosphorus stars are predominantly found in the Milky Way’s inner galactic halo and thick disk, indicating that their distribution is not location-specific, Maren Brauner, a PhD student at Spain’s Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna, told me via email.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Remember, the State gave De Luca, Melissa's trial attorney, a disk containing the dark, unreadable X-rays before trial.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
After this process, those disks would bulge or depress in response to a magnetic field.
—Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disk
Noun
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These worms have long white tentacles and live in tubes made of coral fragments.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
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Today, their bones are few and far between, found typically in isolation and in fragments.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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He’s also been incarcerated in isolation for a significant portion of his time, mostly as payback for publicly humiliating the Ohio Department of Corrections.—
Bob Guccione Jr.,
SPIN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Heavy snow of up to 9 inches was possible for portions of Central and Southern Delaware and Northeast Maryland.—
Joe Edwards,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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In a social media post on Wednesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for the termination of financial agreements supporting an additional tranche of funding approved under a section of the IRA called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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Paramount will also take up a section of the townhouse to fête Gladiator II’s three nods as will Black Bear for the aforementioned Conclave and Sing Sing.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
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The particles can pass through any kind of matter and contain information about some of the most energetic events in the universe, such as gamma-ray bursts.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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In effect, the particles accelerate by surfing on these waves.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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The researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get inside brain cells.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
14 Feb. 2025
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Overall, cadaver brain samples contained seven to 30 times more tiny shards of plastic than their kidneys and liver, said co-lead study author Matthew Campen, Regents’ Professor and professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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A lot of people were holding out a sliver of hope that Trump One wouldn’t be the road map for Trump Two.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2025
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In the greater Bay Area, insurers who opt into the plan will be required to write more policies in Marin, Napa, and Santa Cruz counties, as well as parts of San Mateo and Sonoma counties and a sliver of Santa Clara County.—
Ethan Varian,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly alike.—
Chris Wiley,
The New Yorker,
15 Feb. 2025
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Large flakes fell at a lively rate and in a few hours the snow was three inches deep.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Citing an arrest report, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported a man allegedly invited her and another woman up to his hotel room, then woke up missing nearly $100,000 in cash, casino chips, jewelry, and luxury luggage.—
Ben Brachfeld,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Add the chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of the candies.—
Bev Barrett,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Disk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disk. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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