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Recent Examples of joe Get The Recipe 09 of 42 Sloppy Joe Casserole With Dinner Rolls Sloppy joes get revamped into a tasty, straight-from-the-oven meal. Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2024 We may be stuck in gloomy, grimy post-Brexit London, surrounded by corporatized institutions more dangerous than terrorist networks, but there are still MI5 joes to root for who get out of scrapes and gun battles and somehow save the day. Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023 Check out their favorite projects, mastered with the help of YouTube, and see how two average joes made this redo not only doable but done. Project 1: Refreshing the Exterior The first renovation on the list: a fresh coat of paint. Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023 Athletes project regular-joe public images while living amid yacht-and-helicopter splendor. New York Times, 22 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joe
Noun
  • While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • What did you guys do to prepare to be on-screen journalists?
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The powers that be explained to me that in the audiobook, there would be no easy way to identify the bees’ chapters, which were designated with italics in the printed version, unless the narrator’s voice changed from female to male.
    Elizabeth Bass Parman, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Kristin Andrews, a philosopher at York University, told me about gelada monkeys, which live in units consisting of one dominant male and about a dozen females.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Plenty of people, critics or otherwise, weighed in online, often piling on about their distaste for a perfectly adequate, somewhat imperfect, modestly ambitious thriller that’s mostly about a very intense dude trying to protect his adult children.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Joe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joe. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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