flowerings

plural of flowering

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flowerings
Noun
  • Set the scene The resort sprawls across 10,000 square meters of AlUla’s Ashar Valley, a broad swath of pale desert surrounded by otherworldly rock pinnacles.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • Those values have informed key operational evolutions at Estée Lauder of late.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Massive technological evolutions, including smaller drivers and active and the introduction of adaptive-noise cancellation, have allowed listeners to focus on their favorite music like never before—even on the go, away from home.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Expect dim conditions to fade leaf patterns and limit blooms or new plantlets.
    — Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 21 Oct. 2026
  • El Niño could be a significant contributor to the growth of harmful algal blooms, according to a 2022 study published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In other developments, the bodies of 252 people, said by Russia to be Ukrainian soldiers, were returned to Ukraine in an exchange, Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said Thursday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Burkholder said Simmons missed Wednesday’s practice to discuss the developments, and that’s why he was listed on the injury report as being out with a back injury and for personal reasons.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • New Yale research may help explain why some patients with a small number of growths experience debilitating pain, while others with more widespread disease do not have symptoms.
    — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Uterine fibroids are common, noncancerous growths of the uterus that often appear during a person’s reproductive years, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Volkswagen has also made some improvements to the driving experience and fuel economy.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Until Google makes significant improvements to its new laptop platform, this will remain the case.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Other policy changes include various refinements to its wording around other misuses of Claude AI.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The third-generation glasses feature fairly minor refinements.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2026
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“Flowerings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flowerings. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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