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as in dime
a very small sum of money
their credit card debt isn't hay—it'll take years to pay it off
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as in bed
slang
a place set aside for sleeping
dragging myself out of the hay on such a cold, dreary morning seemed like an act of sheer masochism
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Recent Examples of hay
Damon Wise, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
Lots and lots of hay Like cows, rabbits are foragers that are hardwired to graze constantly, nibbling on fibers and hay one stalk at a time, Valand said.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
North Dakota ranchers all summer have been seeking federal government permission to also hay that land.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 July 2021
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Noun
Declan has been reading up on local lore, revealing that there are 13 different dialects in the area, which also boasts a church made entirely of bundled hay.
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North Dakota ranchers usually aren’t allowed to hay that land until after Aug. 1, when nesting season ends, to protect wildlife populations.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for hay
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In a commercial setting, Bruch told me, a CEO can decide on a dime to prioritize some new direction, and a whole research project can be abandoned.—
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Then that song stopped, on a dime, with Belushi doing a cartwheel as a finale.—
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There is no bed, just some blankets and pillows lying directly on the beige carpet.—
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Shorter types need to be featured farther forward, and trailing types are used for bed edgings.—
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Workers will now mow less frequently and have less regular maintenance of Yuba City’s downtown district.—
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Then, prune overgrown trees and shrubs, trim tall grasses and weedy areas, mow regularly to keep your lawn cut close, and consider calling a chimney sweep to clean out your chimney.—
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Opening with just two Airstreams, there are now seven travel trailers as well as two houses and a bunk house.—
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Yet only 287 of those referrals succeeded, mainly because facilities were full or the available spots — like top bunks — were inaccessible.—
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In other words, around 40 percent of the rise was tied to warmer weather, which may provide rats more opportunities to forage for food and reproduce.—
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Join 1 other in the comments View Comments Researchers are aiming to work out how far bees will fly from the hive to forage for food, if there are enough food sources nearby.—
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Many states have regulations or laws about trapping and releasing feral swine, for example, in order to help reduce the spread.—
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Major American investors, including Trump allies, are involved with companies prospecting nickel, iron and rare earth elements, even though much of it is trapped far under frozen ground or ice (in some parts of Greenland, the ice is two miles thick).—
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Flaco escaped from the Central Park Zoo when an unknown vandal cut open the mesh of his enclosure.—
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Should Towels And Sheets Be Washed Together? To cut to the chase, our experts say your towels and sheets should not be washed together or with other items like clothes.—
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While Suzy was still interested in gleaning every interesting fact about every creature ever, Franny was thinking about hair and clothes and boys.—
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Similarly, Evo was trained (opens a new tab) on large volumes of DNA — 300 billion base pairs from 2.7 million bacterial, archaeal and viral genomes — to glean functional information from stretches of DNA that a user inputs as prompts.—
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“Hay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hay. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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