fillers
Example Sentences
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Instead, nurse practitioners have become major gap fillers, growing their ranks by 60% to 461,000 between 2019 and 2025, data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners show.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Women routinely turn to fillers and surgery to force a level of symmetry and balance we aren’t naturally meant to have as a result of this absurd kind of standard.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026
Still, that’s kind of the point: For him, puzzles should motivate solvers to be more than half-thinking box fillers.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
Stronger safeguards are needed in new legislation for non-surgical procedures like fillers and Botox, Scotland's statutory consumer body has said.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025
Every so often, tiny items ran only as fillers between bigger stories, reminding the American public “The three Fox Sisters … are alive.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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