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as in calls
to give a name to
I've dubbed my car the "Lone Ranger," although "Loan Raider" probably would have been more apt
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as in fumbles
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
he dubbed his first attempt at homemade wine, but he got it reasonably right on the second
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Recent Examples of dubs
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
Cushing, Oklahoma, dubs itself the pipeline crossroads of the world.
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David Goldman,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
This results in what Atlassian dubs the fragmentation tax.
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Shani Harmon,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Claire meets strange apothecary Master Raymond, who dubs her La Dame Blanche.
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
Soon a tunnel between the ships, then a meeting, with a friendly, inquisitive alien who looks like a sort of craggy spider/crab, whom Grace dubs Rocky.
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Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
21 Mar. 2026
Soon a tunnel between the ships, then a meeting, with a friendly, inquisitive alien who looks like a sort of craggy spider/crab, whom Grace dubs Rocky.
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Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2026
While Americans searched for spaces for deeper community in that span, CultureCon – which now dubs itself the world's largest meetup of creatives – sprouted from a gathering of 21 people in Ellis' apartment to an annual gathering place for 12,000 attendees.
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Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
What the site dubs Best of the Best Destinations reflect places visitors have given the highest ratings over the past year.
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Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
Corbin Bolies,
Variety,
23 June 2026
Kansas City played host to the Tahoe Knight Monsters and beat the visitors twice at Cable Dahmer Arena in Independence, adding two more dubs to the win column.
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The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2026
YouTube says up to 25% of the test channels' viewers opt for non-English dubs.
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Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
13 Sep. 2025
The film used Flawless technology to assist with dubs and ore family friendly versions of the film.
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Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
Hulu offers four seasons of Naruto, nine seasons of Shippuden, and one season of Boruto, with episodes varying between English dubs and original Japanese with subtitles.
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Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Verb
Its publisher dubs Cloudthief a data-center noir, which makes Air a data-center fantasy and last year’s film Eddington a data-center western.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
Cushing, Oklahoma, dubs itself the pipeline crossroads of the world.
—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
This results in what Atlassian dubs the fragmentation tax.
—
Shani Harmon,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Claire meets strange apothecary Master Raymond, who dubs her La Dame Blanche.
—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
Soon a tunnel between the ships, then a meeting, with a friendly, inquisitive alien who looks like a sort of craggy spider/crab, whom Grace dubs Rocky.
—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
21 Mar. 2026
Soon a tunnel between the ships, then a meeting, with a friendly, inquisitive alien who looks like a sort of craggy spider/crab, whom Grace dubs Rocky.
—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2026
While Americans searched for spaces for deeper community in that span, CultureCon – which now dubs itself the world's largest meetup of creatives – sprouted from a gathering of 21 people in Ellis' apartment to an annual gathering place for 12,000 attendees.
—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
What the site dubs Best of the Best Destinations reflect places visitors have given the highest ratings over the past year.
—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
The four producers on the project were responsible for producing the full project — including the audio dubs across languages, the music and the score – over six weeks.
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Corbin Bolies,
Variety,
23 June 2026
Kansas City played host to the Tahoe Knight Monsters and beat the visitors twice at Cable Dahmer Arena in Independence, adding two more dubs to the win column.
—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2026
YouTube says up to 25% of the test channels' viewers opt for non-English dubs.
—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
13 Sep. 2025
The film used Flawless technology to assist with dubs and ore family friendly versions of the film.
—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
Hulu offers four seasons of Naruto, nine seasons of Shippuden, and one season of Boruto, with episodes varying between English dubs and original Japanese with subtitles.
—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dubs
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Part of the Splash Jelly Drop collection, Tory Burch’s Mini Romy reworks one of the brand’s signature shapes into a bright aquatic blue that immediately calls to mind swimming pools and cloudless skies.
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If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right?
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Tensions between the galley and the interior continue to escalate over lunch service, when a radio mishap fumbles the order in which the food should go out.
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The movie fumbles the chance to do something arresting with this seminal period in art.
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Can turkey tail mushrooms shrink lipomas, the soft, fatty lumps that show up under the skin of countless aging dogs?
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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The complaint names their former coworker, emergency room nurse Nolan Chismire, and alleges misconduct inside the emergency department that went on for years.
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The declaration names taxes only once because once was enough.
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On his best nights, when the velocity and command combine, Sasaki blows past batters with a triple-digit fastball and cutting off-speed pitches.
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And now, these Sixers are a team that can seemingly stand in the middle of the ring and trade blows with anyone in the Eastern Conference.
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Also highlighted this year as finalists are fellow couture designer Julie de Libran as well as menswear labels EgonLab and Kartik Research.
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Netris labels its approach NAAM, for Network Automation, Abstraction, and Multi-Tenancy, and has become the platform neoclouds standardize on as the category takes shape.
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Moriarty has reported on the yogurt shop murders for over 30 years.
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Not the family stuff, like Natalie’s spontaneous nipple piercing after making out with Cady’s maybe-daughter, Nevaeh (Malia Pyles), who later murders her own mother after kissing her, for way too long, on the mouth.
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Sinner, the 2024 Miami Open champion, became the first man since Roger Federer in 2017 to complete the Sunshine Double — winning Indian Wells and Miami titles back-to-back — and the first in history to win the double without losing a set.
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Let people follow problems across functions, not titles up a ladder.
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“Dubs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dubs. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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