slab

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Recent Examples of slab The house includes a romantic wallpapered bedroom and bathroom on the second floor and a kitchen on the ground floor featuring checkerboard tile floors and a soft fabric skirt to balance the marble slab countertops and backsplash. Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025 Most residents in the beachfront luxury condominium at Surfside were asleep in their beds when their 12-story residential building shuddered and then collapsed, pinning sleeping residents between the heavy concrete slabs of each floor. Bruce Strom, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025 Elegant stone slabs and metals were used throughout to energize the spaces, from the inlay at the entry floor to the wet bar and the powder room mirror surround. Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 15 Apr. 2025 From the foyer, an ethanol fireplace encased in slabs of polished stone anchors a lounge beneath ceilings over 10 feet high. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slab
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Noun
  • But what makes this discovery at the Domus Aurea all the more remarkable is the whopping size of the Egyptian blue ingot in question, which weighs more than five pounds and measures six inches long.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In 2001, an 80-pound ingot was bought by a private collector for a record $8 million.
    CBS News, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Convenient, comfy, and cute, these Arizona sandals have come with me all over the world, from Japan to France, and all over the Vegas strip.
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The gold letters of INEOS are emblazoned on the front of the team’s red and black home strip.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a photo at the end of the reel, Shea stands in a pink shirt while Loubet, in a tuxedo, beams beside him.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Once the creatures were warmed back up, the parts of the ice layer that had not been exposed to the beam sublimated away, and the pattern was preserved on the tardigrade's surface, even after the creatures were rehydrated.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The previous two pucks that got by Pickard came off Moore’s stick.
    Eric Stephens, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Taylor appeared to provide her team with a two-goal cushion on a curl around the right post with 1:35 left, but her stick hit Maryland senior defender Sophie Halus on the head, and the goal was waived off after video review.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Slab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slab. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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