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Recent Examples of napkin
Each place setting has a plate, a glass, a flower and other items like silverware and napkins, all chosen or decorated to represent the woman being honored.
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
Trump could scribble Kyle Rittenhouse's name on a napkin and have 50 votes to confirm him to any office in the federal government.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
While her napkin video garnered more than 21 million views and countless reactions, the attention left Bohrer confused.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Our Karma Desk reports that the Irving divorce supposedly cost Spielberg $100 million, after a prenup written on a napkin wasn’t accepted by the court.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
Trump could scribble Kyle Rittenhouse's name on a napkin and have 50 votes to confirm him to any office in the federal government.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
While her napkin video garnered more than 21 million views and countless reactions, the attention left Bohrer confused.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Our Karma Desk reports that the Irving divorce supposedly cost Spielberg $100 million, after a prenup written on a napkin wasn’t accepted by the court.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for napkin
Noun
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The towels are made from 100% cotton with a 100% polyester hem.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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To better prepare the skin to retrieve sebum from pores, take a page from K-beauty TikTok creator Liu Yuhan, who suggests placing warm towels on your nose for 10 minutes.—
Rosa Jisoo Pyo,
Vogue,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This method showed a 50% reduction in tissue inflammation, and shrunk the wound down to a tenth of its size in just two weeks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Mar. 2025
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Cedar-apple and cedar-hawthorn rusts create galls — abnormal tissue swellings — on the twigs of infected junipers, whereas cedar-quince does not.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Use them to aid in pouring wine so that not a drop ends up in the wrong place, or set them beneath decanters like proper serviettes.—
Hannah Selinger,
wsj.com,
29 Sep. 2023
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For this look, take a red washable serviette and fashion it into a long, thin roll.—
Alyssa Gautieri,
Good Housekeeping,
22 Nov. 2022
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“Napkin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/napkin. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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