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Recent Examples of buoy
Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Instead, one of the cameras captured a wolf swimming to shore with a buoy in her mouth before dropping it on the sand.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
The university that once promised to buoy scientific aspirations now feels like a deadweight.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The rogue buoy eventually washed up on shore north of South Haven on March 25, and a local resident dragged it up on the beach two days later.
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Democrats maintained a strong advantage in Northern Virginia, where turnout among suburban voters continues to buoy Spanberger’s numbers, while Republicans remained dominant in Southwest Virginia and other rural regions.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for buoy
Noun
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This week, some of those indicators have fallen, but the CDC says that does not necessarily mean the season has reached its peak.—
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Hartnett pointed to a cluster of extreme positioning indicators in a note to clients Friday.—
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Once the polish is fully dry and hardened, use a credit card or your fingers to lift under the blob and break it off.—
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Matthew Stafford threw a 19-yard go-ahead touchdown pass to Colby Parkinson with 38 seconds to lift the Los Angeles Rams to a dramatic 34-31 wild-card round win over the Carolina Panthers in the opening game of the NFL playoffs on Saturday.—
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The footage shows the fish start to swim faster and more erratically when a large whale suddenly breaks through the school of fish with its gaping maw.—
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In two years, the Buffs have hopped from the land of tech bros (the old Pac-12) to a conference of oil barons (the Big 12) who swim in fast cash and Texas tea.—
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The outer layer of the capsule is made from gelatin coated with a layer of cellulose and either molybdenum or tungsten, which blocks any RF signal from being emitted.—
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Advance Denim’s exclusive use of HV100 in key Asian markets is a clear signal that the future of denim doesn’t have to compromise between aesthetic authenticity, technical performance and planetary well-being.—
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Decades of discrimination would steel her character and resolve.—
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The Pats are back because of who their quarterback has become, and who Mike Vrabel is as a head coach; a man capable of steeling a brittle roster into a dogged competitor.—
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Only a handful of rafts floated lazily in the water.—
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The Big Ten has floated an idea for a 24- or 28-team playoff that gives each power conference four automatic bids.—
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About 30 percent of the galaxies emit radio waves, a sign that their central black holes are active.—
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The rich-looking denim alternative was a big trend in 2025, with co-signs from Hailey Bieber and Martha Stewart.—
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Even if the Bears make it that far, the NFL season will not overlap with her competition, and so Kevin Warren on Tuesday was planning to be in Milan to cheer her on.—
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Educators stood on the street corner —holding signs, blowing whistles and cheering as passing cars honked in approval.—
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“Buoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buoy. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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