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Recent Examples of napkin
Meanwhile, in San Diego, supermarkets constantly ran out of essentials like toilet paper and napkins — yet that was never the case in Tijuana.
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Tania Navarro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Architecture can have its napkin sketch epiphanies, but the fundamental requirement of the profession is then to tweak these dreams to hold up floors and keep out rain, a process that is often resolutely boring.
—Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
In 2013, two entrepreneurs delivered a message on a napkin to Madrid’s president Florentino Perez.
—Guillermo Rai, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Alba Melamine Platter This melamine platter comes in a new Alba pattern and matches other dining items from the collection—there's even a coordinating napkin set!
—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2025
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Tania Navarro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Architecture can have its napkin sketch epiphanies, but the fundamental requirement of the profession is then to tweak these dreams to hold up floors and keep out rain, a process that is often resolutely boring.
—Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
In 2013, two entrepreneurs delivered a message on a napkin to Madrid’s president Florentino Perez.
—Guillermo Rai, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Alba Melamine Platter This melamine platter comes in a new Alba pattern and matches other dining items from the collection—there's even a coordinating napkin set!
—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for napkin
Noun
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But after June’s torrential rainstorm, the water time seeped past her French glass doors into the house for the first time — her towels and blankets unable to stem the flow.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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Specific foot-strengthening movements might include towel scrunches, banded ankle exercises, and calf raises, Dr. Malek says.—
Cindy Kuzma,
SELF,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This method showed a 50% reduction in tissue inflammation, and shrunk the wound down to a tenth of its size in just two weeks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Mar. 2025
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Cedar-apple and cedar-hawthorn rusts create galls — abnormal tissue swellings — on the twigs of infected junipers, whereas cedar-quince does not.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Use them to aid in pouring wine so that not a drop ends up in the wrong place, or set them beneath decanters like proper serviettes.—
Hannah Selinger,
wsj.com,
29 Sep. 2023
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For this look, take a red washable serviette and fashion it into a long, thin roll.—
Alyssa Gautieri,
Good Housekeeping,
22 Nov. 2022
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“Napkin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/napkin. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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