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also Joe Schmos
as in little guys
an average or ordinary man
the typical Joe Blow can't afford to stay at the new five-star hotel
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Noun
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Red buckeye and coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) are two of the major native feeder plants for these little guys to follow when the plants bloom progressively from the South to the North when temperatures start to rise.—
Campbell Vaughn,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026 -
So, why are these little guys missing?—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Boarding school has been making Muck boys into ugly, priggish little men for generations.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Some workers complain that receiving calls and messages can interrupt their recordings, and having a phone strapped to their head is uncomfortable.—
NILESH CHRISTOPHER LOS ANGELES TIMES,
Arkansas Online,
15 Mar. 2026
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The department eventually helped a hundred and sixty-one workers recover on average roughly three thousand dollars in wages each.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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