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Recent Examples of stilt
Despite the 74,000 tickets selling out in five hours for both games and a wait list with more than 3 million fans, Godbout saw the spectacle Friday night and experienced the uninterrupted entertainment that comes with Banana Ball: A pitcher on stilts.
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Emma Moon, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2025
In a New Orleans neighborhood about a mile from the jail, an area dotted with wood-frame homes on stilts with peeling paint, corner stores and small churches, Lakisha Catchings, a mother of eight, said the dangers were keeping her family indoors.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 17 June 2025
How does a team truly set up to play defense behind a pitcher standing nearly 11-feet tall wearing stilts?
—Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
What could a guy in stilts bring to a baseball team?
—Emma Moon, Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2025
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Emma Moon, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2025
In a New Orleans neighborhood about a mile from the jail, an area dotted with wood-frame homes on stilts with peeling paint, corner stores and small churches, Lakisha Catchings, a mother of eight, said the dangers were keeping her family indoors.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 17 June 2025
How does a team truly set up to play defense behind a pitcher standing nearly 11-feet tall wearing stilts?
—Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
What could a guy in stilts bring to a baseball team?
—Emma Moon, Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stilt
Noun
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The little charging stand is perfect for a garage or storage room shelf, as long as there's a power outlet nearby.—
Nena Farrell,
Wired News,
10 July 2025
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Money in, money out: Use classic methods, such as a lemonade stand, to teach earning money and managing expenses.—
Kris Ann Valdez,
Parents,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Together, the groups have created a high-tech stage in the upper stands, to avoid potentially damaging the pitch at halftime of such an important game, featuring 40,000 pounds of gear, scenery and structural trusses.—
Melanie Anzidei,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Global Citizen brought in 40,000 pounds of staging, scenery, and structural truss, all carried by hand by 100 stagehands to the stands and brought to the venue by six semi-trucks.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Bird departed with a primal scream, a strut in his step and his arms pumping.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
28 June 2025
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Ralphs’ songwriting and guitar work in that band helped move rock ‘n’ roll out of the psychedelic ‘60s and into the struts and arty pomp of ‘70s glam.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
Noun
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Exposure to the cold weather can cause the moisture to be sucked out of your instrument, leading to loose pegs, cracks in the wood and damaged strings.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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The third-party lens is housed in a plastic gadget similar to a washing peg in most cases.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
25 June 2025
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“Stilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stilt. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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