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shingle

[shing-guhl] / ˈʃɪŋ gəl /








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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

Thor was carrying them on his back: boat, oars, Hymir, and whales, carrying them along the shingle at the edge of the sea.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

Likewise, Artham knew that packaging was key to mimicking the full experience, which is why Hooray Foods' bacon is shingled across an L-board pack.

From Salon May 24, 2022

The rice is spooned into the bottom of a baking dish, then sliced raw purple and yellow onions are shingled on top.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2022

The boys’ privy was rebuilt and newly shingled, mostly by Glenn, though Charlie wasn’t a bit grateful.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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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