Thesaurus results for LAYOUTS

layouts

noun

plural of layout

as in formations

the way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized the decorator changed the layout of the living room three times before declaring it finished

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the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged the layout of his portraits typically consists of a finely drawn subject against a roughly sketched background

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Recent Examples of layouts Although the port layouts on Googlebooks vary, most provide more hardwired connections than MacBooks do. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026 Riding Modes Pro introduces a customizable Race Pro mode, along with three additional Sport display layouts showing data such as traction-control intervention, braking force and lean angle. — New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026 Initial reviewers highlighted numerous apps not yet set up for the phone, occasionally leading to awkward layouts. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Galleries don’t have separate booths and instead exhibit one or two artists in open-plan layouts, with project spaces taking up as little as one wall. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Nobody’s asking you to make your kitchen vanish or bring back closed-off layouts, though. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2026 Attendees can also compare boats and layouts, meet manufacturers and dealers and find resources for every stage of the sailing journey. — Michelle Richardson, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 The team also tested PASSAGE on a Unitree G1 humanoid robot across 50 previously unseen physical layouts. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026 Electric motors forced factories to abandon rigid layouts for flexible, continuous-flow production. — Ming Lu, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026

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Chiricahua was originally established as a national monument in 1924, and today boasts more than 17 miles of hiking trails for exploring on foot, as well as the Bonita Canyon Scenic Drive, a picturesque road that winds through rock formations.

— Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
In her first collaboration with a Brazilian artist, Goebel blended the DCC’s crisp formations with funk, samba, hip-hop, twerking, and the voguing of Brazil’s ballroom scene.

— Raymond Braun, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026

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The achievement is part of GM’s development of its fourth-generation EV platform, which aims to deliver longer driving ranges, lower manufacturing costs and simpler vehicle designs.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Mining heritage and guochao National pride in China, expressed through the guochao movement, continues to boom in fashion, with local designers finding new ways to translate their own culture in their designs.

— Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of designs

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The organizers believe both formats will shape where the genre goes next.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
BriskPace Unlimited will work on AI-native productions, micro-dramas and creator-led formats, developed alongside Briskpace Studios’ film and TV slate.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026

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The plaintiffs’ lawyers noted in their filing that at least a half dozen suits currently pending in federal court in San Francisco related to musical compositions being improperly used to train artificial intelligence.

— James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
According to Shadwick, Sanborn also gave some of these early oil paintings new, misleading titles, and assumed Hopper had conceived of the compositions himself, inspired by his surroundings in Nyack.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of compositions

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These are songs that iterate and elevate minor party fouls into dramas of symphonic proportion, arrangements that articulate the heightened emotions churning inside anxious minds.

— Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
Unlike litigation in federal court, arbitration and mediation are generally conducted outside the public judicial process and often subject to confidentiality arrangements.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of arrangements

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The study also detailed how physicians often change their referral and prescribing patterns after their practices are acquired by hospitals, sometimes requesting imaging or other procedures that are not needed.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
People often reach for supplements when shift work, frequent travel or insomnia throws off their sleep patterns.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of patterns

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Notably, this is the first book in the TOG series to drop the YA approach for more adult themes.

— Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2026
So many themes related to the Tylenol poisonings seemed to emerge as Cooper investigated Betkowski’s life, but no direct evidence materialized to link him to the crime or place him in Chicago during the time of the poisonings.

— Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

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