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Recent Examples of dual
The dual windblock wall planks are double tongue and groove measuring 1.75 inches thick.
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Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2025
Its dual narrative concerns a set of perverse medical experiments about human consciousness performed in an early-20th-century Argentine sanitorium and, a century later, an outsider artist who carries forth the legacy of these trials in grotesque ways.
—The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Starting with Cole Palmer and Christopher Nkunku as dual false nines at the Amex Stadium, Chelsea lacked a consistent penalty-box presence or a reliable means to stretch the opposition defence.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Brito, who had been shut down last summer with a flexor tendon issue and then quickly shut down with the same issue this spring, underwent a dual procedure in which the flexor tendon was repaired and there was a brace affixed to his UCL as a sort of revision of his 2017 Tommy John surgery.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
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Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2025
Its dual narrative concerns a set of perverse medical experiments about human consciousness performed in an early-20th-century Argentine sanitorium and, a century later, an outsider artist who carries forth the legacy of these trials in grotesque ways.
—The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Starting with Cole Palmer and Christopher Nkunku as dual false nines at the Amex Stadium, Chelsea lacked a consistent penalty-box presence or a reliable means to stretch the opposition defence.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Brito, who had been shut down last summer with a flexor tendon issue and then quickly shut down with the same issue this spring, underwent a dual procedure in which the flexor tendon was repaired and there was a brace affixed to his UCL as a sort of revision of his 2017 Tommy John surgery.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dual
Adjective
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Pulsars are spinning neutron stars that emit twin beams of radio waves from their magnetic poles.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
22 May 2025
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And Nat started out in the baby world after her frustrations with her twin pregnancy and delivery.—
Kimberly Zapata,
Parents,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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The punch-card Jacquard loom, invented in the early 19th-century for weaving, is considered a precursor to modern computing because its use of binary code inspired early computer design.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
21 May 2025
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Instead of processing data in the binary state of zeros and ones, quantum computers run on qubits, which encompass myriad states all at once.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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As Spain’s only double Oscar-qualifying animation festival, Animayo’s top honors serve as a launchpad to the Academy Awards.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
29 May 2025
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She was born in Massachusetts to Nigerian immigrants and, as a teen, was an exceptional figure skater: one who could land double axels with a practiced ease that betrayed the intense commitment behind them.—
Daron James,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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“Dual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dual. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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