variants
or accouterments
as in equipment
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
has all the accoutrements that the home pastry chef could ever want
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Recent Examples of accoutrements
The festival grounds had some of the usual accoutrements, including stacks of loudspeakers and an area where DJs would otherwise use digital turntables and a sound mixer to play trance music.
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NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
My father had the right accoutrements for every occasion.
—Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
The scientific accoutrements on hand will include incubators, freezers, bio-fabrication banks, and centrifuges.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2024
Any outsized accoutrements should at least be made removable.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accoutrements
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For football: No protective equipment may be worn during practice; and there may be no conditioning activities.Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Maybe even a yoga session where the instructor brings the equipment and drives to meet you.David Kubes, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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That’s a lot of good stuff at an equally good sale price.Simon Hill, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Best Travel Organizer Deals Under $50 Travel organizers make keeping track of your stuff so much easier.Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2024
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The company designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, accessories, and related services.Michael Khouw, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
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What about maybe your accessories tonight?Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
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The natural wood grain and sleek black hardware is a nice touch, too.Will Porter, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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The Coach Tabby bag with black hardware serves as a stealth style statement that ties the whole outfit together in a bow.Adam Mansuroglu, WWD, 18 Nov. 2024
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The governor can direct state employees, equipment and facilities in preparation for and response to an emergency, as well as to aid counties and municipalities.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
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And two years after Oregonians opted in 2020 in favor of legalizing psilocybin in supervised facilities, 25 of the state’s 36 counties voted against allowing psilocybin use.Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Since the launch of their life-altering apparatus in 1903, airplanes have come a long way.Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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Longer term, the law aims to undo a U.N. apparatus that Israel has regarded as problematic ever since it was established to provide for the needs of the 700,000 Palestinian refugees who were pushed off the land that became Israel.Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Accoutrements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accoutrements. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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