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: a horizontal architectural member spanning and usually carrying the load above an opening
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Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid the plague of artificial intelligence online.
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
These, in turn, support stone lintels — horizontal spans also made of rock, some of which are slotted together with joints.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
The museum had previously returned another object—the Vishnu lintel—to the same temple in the 1988.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2024
Although visually arresting, the actions on these lintels take place within the confines of the mundane world.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
These, in turn, support stone lintels — horizontal spans also made of rock, some of which are slotted together with joints.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
The museum had previously returned another object—the Vishnu lintel—to the same temple in the 1988.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2024
Although visually arresting, the actions on these lintels take place within the confines of the mundane world.
—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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“Lintel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lintel. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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lintel
noun
lin·tel
ˈlint-ᵊl 
: a horizontal piece across the top of an opening (as of a door) that carries the weight of the structure above it
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