as in expansion
a wide space or area
from the bow of our ship all we could see was an impenetrable sheet of fog
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as in to coat
to form a layer over
dust sheeted the floors of the old, abandoned house
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Recent Examples of sheet
Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Bring your beauty cabinet to-go by packing these collagen sheet masks, and Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask to use on the plane.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 10 July 2025
Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Failure to confront and anticipate social and environmental issues and their consequences is being sheeted back to boards and executives.
—The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Noun
From sheet masks to glass skin to BB creams to cushion compacts, K-beauty has brought countless innovations to the US.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Bring your beauty cabinet to-go by packing these collagen sheet masks, and Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask to use on the plane.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
But Maduro’s numbers have been widely discredited by both domestic and international observers, based on both polling prior to the election and tally sheets the opposition was able to recover from voting machines before Maduro’s forces shut down the count.
—Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Failure to confront and anticipate social and environmental issues and their consequences is being sheeted back to boards and executives.
—The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheet
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The brand is looking to drive further international expansion and new partnerships with Harvey Nichols, Liberty, Flannels and John Lewis in the U.K. The medium-term aim, Baldo said, is for wholesale to account for around 15 percent of business.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
10 July 2025
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The changes should spur the expansion of housing in urban areas that are close to jobs and transportation and make an impactful contribution toward addressing the housing crisis in California by narrowing the gap between housing demand and supply.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 July 2025
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Except there’s a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, and coated in a puzzle.—
Irina Ivanova,
Fortune,
13 July 2025
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Chicken and waffles are also popular, and one waffle menu item comes coated in Fruity Pebbles breakfast cereal.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
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Places like Antarctica, Tasmania, and New Zealand sometimes offer glimpses of the elusive southern lights, but one of the most compelling places to witness the celestial event is in Patagonia, the mountainous expanse that straddles southern Argentina and Chile.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
6 July 2025
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Arizona, with its abundant sun, lack of oil and gas resources, open desert expanses and business-friendly policies, has been a leader in welcoming clean energy progress incentivized by Biden-era programs.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
3 July 2025
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Raise salaries, diminish contractual obligations to teach, include the expenses of laboratory instruction and add the depreciation of expensive buildings — all factors in the sciences — and tuition becomes wholly inadequate to cover even the cost of instruction.—
Clifford Ando,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Although long covered by artists like Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and Joni Mitchell, this is the only version in existence of Guthrie himself singing it.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Beaches on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast The Pacific coast runs the length of the country’s western edge, and the landscape is more varied and rugged than on the Caribbean.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 July 2025
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Sold in various lengths and colors on Amazon from December 2024 to April, the unmarked bumpers are considered suffocation hazards.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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The line is rooted in outerwear, which includes wrap coats in twin layers of double-faced wool; reversible jackets with one side plain, the other patterned; and crinkled unisex trenchcoats that pack up neatly into a travel pouch, printed with a bicycle pattern drawn from Veldkamp’s art.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
10 July 2025
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This piece from Matt Simon digging into the science behind the catastrophic Texas floods makes the abstract plain, while this disaster preparedness kit offers practical advice.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
8 July 2025
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That might include coaching, shadowing, stretch projects or focused learning interventions.—
David James,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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Although some newcomers understandably associate Texas with its long stretches of severe drought, cycles of flash flooding are just as definitive.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
7 July 2025
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“Sheet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheet. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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