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Recent Examples of sugarloaf
The actress wore a Bulgari high jewelry necklace with a sugarloaf sapphire center stone to complete her look.
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Shannon Adducci, Robb Report, 5 May 2025
In addition, there’s a 13.18-carat unmounted and unheated sugarloaf cabochon Kahmir sapphire with an estimate of $500,000 - $750,000.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Just offshore, on the park’s namesake island that looks like a sugarloaf, is a small colony of about 40 Humboldt penguins prowling the coast in search of food.
—Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sugarloaf
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The Clarks residence originally stood alone on the ridge until 1984, around the same time the family built a 40- by 20-foot pool and spa on the east side of their home, along with an upstairs wing.—
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Total snow accumulations through Thursday evening will range from 1 to 2 inches for the Pittsburgh metro area, 2 to 4 inches from roughly Route 422 north to Interstate 80 in the Laurel Highlands and ridges, and less than 1 inch from Washington southwest into northern West Virginia.—
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Placing humidity domes or clear plastic over seedling pots and trays helps conserve moisture levels to some degree.—
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The objective is to study the composition and origin of the domes and surroundings.—
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Take, for example, a bowl of artichoke purée poured around a hillock of tender Jonah crab.—
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Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.—
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Two bills returned into Rafiq’s hand upon his pointing out that the wood panelling on the side of the radio was scratched and that the knob felt rather flimsy.—
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Slip off the control knobs and wash with hot, soapy water.—
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Water suddenly pours over the basalt cliffs, plunging into the glassy, almost perfectly circular pool below.—
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Time hits differently on the Aeolians, particularly on sleepy Salina, whose volcanic slopes are carpeted in wild capers and whose lava-houses and fishing villages appear cantilevered over the cliffs, with views of a smoking Stromboli.—
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“Sugarloaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sugarloaf. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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