as in blankets
to form a layer over
thicken the sauce until it will coat the back of a spoon
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Recent Examples of coats
New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2025
Even a pet cemetery, where Tina Turner's dog is buried with one of her fur coats.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Most recently, in 2023, a group of British researchers found that ticks are passively attracted to furry hosts, whose fluffy coats accumulate electrons.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
The 12-time Academy Award nominee and the model both bundled up for brisk weather, as both Cooper and Hadid wore coats, sunglasses and Cooper capped a beanie over his head.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
In a recent project, her team ensured that tall cabinets had rods to hang coats, while lockers held shelves and hooks inside for sports equipment.
—Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
Roughly 40 billionaires have purchased Norwegian Wool coats, Berkowitz estimates.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Identifiable by elaborate braiding, decorative buttons, and often toggles across the chest, military coats — also known as the Hussar jacket or Pelisse — appear to be making a comeback.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Ideal for the coats-and-boots season fastly encroaching.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2025
When rice makes the journey from paddy to grocery store to your home, with a few stops along the way, the grains rub against each other, resulting in a layer of starch that coats the outside of each individual grain.
—Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
Whether your hair has been fried from hot tools or color treatments, this treatment coats every strand using ceramides and collagen.
—Sarah Han, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
The results could help scientists plan future Mars missions by accounting for the troublesome dust that coats rover solar panels and whips across landing sites during descent, the researchers say.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
The style’s key color is a bright Varsity Maize yellow, which coats the entirety of the upper’s nubuck base.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
During winter, mist from the falls coats everything — including scaffolding — in a dangerous skin of ice.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
Powdery mildew coats the leaves of roses and zinnias, blazing heat withers your veggies, and weeds are the only plants that seem to be thriving.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
This finicky, formal style coats every page of the novel with an impressively even surface that doesn’t serve any deeper spiritual purpose.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
The coats will be debuted by Team USA athletes at the Milan Winter Olympics in February next year.
—New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2025
Even a pet cemetery, where Tina Turner's dog is buried with one of her fur coats.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Most recently, in 2023, a group of British researchers found that ticks are passively attracted to furry hosts, whose fluffy coats accumulate electrons.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
The 12-time Academy Award nominee and the model both bundled up for brisk weather, as both Cooper and Hadid wore coats, sunglasses and Cooper capped a beanie over his head.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
In a recent project, her team ensured that tall cabinets had rods to hang coats, while lockers held shelves and hooks inside for sports equipment.
—Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
Roughly 40 billionaires have purchased Norwegian Wool coats, Berkowitz estimates.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Identifiable by elaborate braiding, decorative buttons, and often toggles across the chest, military coats — also known as the Hussar jacket or Pelisse — appear to be making a comeback.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Ideal for the coats-and-boots season fastly encroaching.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
Continue until the solution makes a paste and coats the entire surface of the tub.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2025
When rice makes the journey from paddy to grocery store to your home, with a few stops along the way, the grains rub against each other, resulting in a layer of starch that coats the outside of each individual grain.
—Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
Whether your hair has been fried from hot tools or color treatments, this treatment coats every strand using ceramides and collagen.
—Sarah Han, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
The results could help scientists plan future Mars missions by accounting for the troublesome dust that coats rover solar panels and whips across landing sites during descent, the researchers say.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
The style’s key color is a bright Varsity Maize yellow, which coats the entirety of the upper’s nubuck base.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
During winter, mist from the falls coats everything — including scaffolding — in a dangerous skin of ice.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
Powdery mildew coats the leaves of roses and zinnias, blazing heat withers your veggies, and weeds are the only plants that seem to be thriving.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
This finicky, formal style coats every page of the novel with an impressively even surface that doesn’t serve any deeper spiritual purpose.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coats
Noun
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Numerous investigations document violent beatings, and plant wools spare these gentle, clever animals from fear and abuse.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
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The other side leaned into traditional wools, tweeds and blanket-like materials for outerwear and shirting.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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His droll voiceover, which warmly blankets and contextualizes his imagery, provides viewers an entrée into an worldview effortlessly engaged with culture, politics, and the smallest details of his private life.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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And the Eero Pro 6E, at $150 off, blankets your home in a fast, reliable Wi-Fi 6E mesh network while easily managing smart home gear.—
Shubham Yewale,
PC Magazine,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Dry methods included running a lint roller or brush over the upholstery to remove some loose hairs.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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The anatomy bore hairs, sometimes teeth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The new beach collection, which launched globally this week, covers shirts, shorts, swim shorts and accessories in Italian linen, silk and towelling with fine jacquard and embroidery across some of the pieces.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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According to Kroll Settlement Administration, the settlement fund covers attorney’s fees and expenses up to $200,000, service award to class representatives up to $3,000 and settlement administration costs, which are still to be determined.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With the help of vacuum bags, one traveler fit two pairs of jeans, two pairs of joggers, two jackets, socks and underwear, Nike slides, four shirts, and toiletries.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Oct. 2025
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Suede Pants The return of boho-chic aesthetics has made suede jackets, bags, and shoes cooler than ever.—
Marilú Almaguer,
Glamour,
26 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Found in small quantities in the solar wind, He-3 is implanted in the lunar regolith, the layer of loose, fragmented material that carpets the terrain of the moon.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Coats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coats. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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