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Recent Examples of slab
Volunteer Devon Douglas emerged from a pit of rubble that had once been the living room, staggering under the weight of a concrete slab more than a foot wide.
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Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
The geologist found the slab in 2002, realized it was covered in dinosaur tracks and saved it from being blasted.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
There, the organization found at least three crematoriums with incinerated skeletal remains hidden under a layer of earth and a brick slab.
—Belén Zapata, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Students at an Australian high school got a thrilling paleontology lesson this week when a researcher confirmed that a rock slab stored on their campus for two decades preserves dozens of dinosaur footprints dating back some 200 million years.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
The geologist found the slab in 2002, realized it was covered in dinosaur tracks and saved it from being blasted.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
There, the organization found at least three crematoriums with incinerated skeletal remains hidden under a layer of earth and a brick slab.
—Belén Zapata, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Students at an Australian high school got a thrilling paleontology lesson this week when a researcher confirmed that a rock slab stored on their campus for two decades preserves dozens of dinosaur footprints dating back some 200 million years.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slab
Noun
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Throughout the second and third millennia BC, Indus merchants traded with people across the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, their ships bringing copper ingots, pearls, spices and ivory.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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Gold bullion or gold jewelry Physical gold includes anything from gold bullion — investment-quality gold with a purity of 99.5% (995) in the shape of bars, ingots, coins or rounds — to jewelry and other collectibles.—
Nathan Mahr,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Carnivores, meanwhile, can carve into filets, N.Y. strips and ribeyes as well as Berkshire pork in a sherry reduction and double-bone lamb chops in roasted garlic-thyme jus.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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The attacks came less than a week after Israel renewed its assault across the strip on March 18, breaking a weeks-long ceasefire with Hamas.—
Kareem El Damanhoury,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2025
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The bedrooms are awash in calming sand tones with dark wood ceiling beams above and the general ambience takes cues from nature.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
7 Apr. 2025
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Omega cleaned concrete and wood out of the arena Saturday so workers can cut steel support beams and let the roof crash down early this week.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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It’s subsequently gone viral on TikTok for videos of customers pulling apart its gooey mozzarella sticks.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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Afterward, as the crowd roared and his teammates rapped their sticks on the boards, Ovechkin took a lap around the ice in the spotlight.—
Becky Sullivan,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Slab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slab. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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