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shingle

[shing-guhl] / ˈʃɪŋ gəl /








NOUN
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For “Over Your Dead Body,” he teams with producer David Leitch, whose 87North shingle specializes in R-rated action-comedies like “Nobody” and “Violent Night.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

Wonder Project, the shingle behind hit TV series ‘House of David,’ is among a wave of Hollywood production companies bringing ‘faith programming’ into the 21st century.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2026

His memories alight on his father, Wheeler, an attorney who turned down a high-paying job in Chicago to hang out his shingle in Port William.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

We arrived, some minutes later, at a shingle beach beside the old fishing village of Audresselles, just south of Cap Gris-Nez.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2025

Even with the windows closed and the shutters fastened I could hear it; a low sullen murmur as the waves broke on the white shingle in the cove.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

At the bar, I built a fantastic $59 meal from the happy-hour menu: hamachi crudo shingled with plums, chicken curry, and truffled brie grilled cheese with mango jam.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

When you imagine a typical American family home, you probably picture something like John Williamson and Sue Spaziani’s house, with its shingled roof and wraparound porch.

From Slate Oct. 17, 2024

The buildings and shingled cottages are bright pastel, the waterfront dotted with cafes and patio umbrellas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2023

But sometime over the last few weeks, one snowy owl in particular made a surprise appearance in noticeably less harsh terrain — the shingled roofs and white chimneys of suburban Southern California.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2022

Did the blonde ladies with shingled hair capture her?

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

For presentation, gingerly prop the tofu against the pork, shingling it out slightly.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

Top each with two thin slices of ham and the cucumbers, shingling the cucumbers neatly on top of each sandwich.

From Washington Post Oct. 13, 2022

In addition to potted plants, they have moss-wrapped kokedama, cork-mounted plants, terrariums and shingling plants.

From Seattle Times Sep. 9, 2021

Using shingling, we transformed the text of articles in both datasets into a list of tokens, and then turned the list of tokens into a list of n-token sequences called “shingles.”

From New York Times Jan. 5, 1458

He heard horses’ hoofs plodding on the road and far-off pounding on wood where a neighbor was shingling a barn.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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