hard hat

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Recent Examples of hard hat The park provides safety equipment, like coveralls, hard hats and eye protection. Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025 Workers wore special hard hats and glare-free goggles, and Strauss insisted on an unheard-of construction feature: a $130,000 safety net. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2025 In 2025, the hard hats come off and the pictures go back up. James Poniewozik, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025 Work is ongoing — a frenzy of hard hats, fluorescent-jacketed workmen and whirring machinery. Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hard hat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard hat
Noun
  • Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • Kelce — dressed in a full tuxedo and a top hat — carried Swift in his arms.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • While Kelce made a guest appearance on stage during her Eras Tour (wearing a tuxedo and a top hat no less!), Swift has shown up to Chiefs games time and time again sporting the team's signature red.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Boxy tees, cropped and oversized sweatshirts and denim baseball cap round out the line.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In a video posted on social media Feb. 20, Garfield and Barbaro, who were dressed casually, including in baseball caps, could be seen chatting before the show began.
    Athena Sobhan, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.
    Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In addition to tagging along for the film's premiere, Brisket has also been seen all over Powell's Instagram doing everything from wearing matching cowboy hats to riding along in a shoulder sling and even appearing in thirst traps alongside his shirtless dad.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Senator Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, appeared on the Senate floor this week wearing a cowboy hat to protest a recent enforcement of dress code rules that prevented Senator Jim Banks from voting while wearing sneakers.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021

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“Hard hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard%20hat. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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