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Recent Examples of stilt
From the comfort of the parking lot, guests can spot whimbrels, black-necked stilts and American oystercatchers, while the occasional black skimmer—a striking seabird that uses its lengthy lower bill to skim the water for prey—can be spotted as well.
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Perched atop hillsides or stilts, fire lookout towers are still effective at alerting officials of a potential blaze.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this grouping of about 40 homes on stilts was built in the mid-1800s using wood that washed up on shore from shipwrecks.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
While exposing the larvae to playback of recordings from the healthy nearby Tektite Reef, the researchers measured how many larvae settled onto a ceramic stilt within the cup during the first 24 hours.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2024
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Perched atop hillsides or stilts, fire lookout towers are still effective at alerting officials of a potential blaze.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this grouping of about 40 homes on stilts was built in the mid-1800s using wood that washed up on shore from shipwrecks.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
While exposing the larvae to playback of recordings from the healthy nearby Tektite Reef, the researchers measured how many larvae settled onto a ceramic stilt within the cup during the first 24 hours.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stilt
Noun
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There’s a definite purity-politics flavor to any suggestion that people should take a moral stand and leave a social network, but also a pretty airtight case to be made for boycotting it.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
23 May 2025
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) recently took a public stand on government actions affecting research funding and healthcare access.—
Lynn Godfrey,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Each 4-foot-wide panel includes solid-core polystyrene insulation, surrounded by pre-galvanized steel with a steel truss system.—
Jennifer Castenson,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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The club’s tour guide has ensured an extra flourish to her uniform for today, her nails, which are painted with the motifs of Archibald Leitch’s iconic criss-crossing steel trusses that support Goodison’s stands.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
Noun
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To set up, the user simply raises the roof manually with help from the integrated struts, slides the sleeper panel out over the side of the van and installs the two awning poles.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 May 2025
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Our current boat uses an axial flux motor on top of the T foil that drives the struts down to a gearbox, which goes out to a prop.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Then Quail Hollow's Green Mile took the LIV Golf star down a peg.—
Kendall Capps,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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An estimate from Fidelity pegs the average cost of a wedding in 2024 at $33,000.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
16 May 2025
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“Stilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stilt. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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