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as in coward
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as in icicle
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Recent Examples of mouse
Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 June 2025
We’re used to hearing about laboratory mice or rats.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2025
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The volatile oils that give bay leaves their distinct odor and flavors repel flies, moths, cockroaches, and even mice.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 June 2025
We’re used to hearing about laboratory mice or rats.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2025
Verb
Medical examiners determined that Arakawa's death at 65 was caused by hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a disease usually contracted from exposure to mouse droppings that affects the lungs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
Noun
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With rising apprehension, the Cabinet kept deliberating for a couple of days while Sumner did his best to shut down jingoistic rhetoric in the Senate from politicians who demanded that Lincoln not be a coward in the face of Great Britain.—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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Because these cowards fear being doxed for their inhumane and unconscionable actions.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
Noun
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Above the family, an array of winter jackets and coats hang alongside a string of white icicle lights.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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Direct fatalities Direct fatalities include deaths due to things like cold weather exposure, avalanches and icicles falling, Hurley said.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
The Tennessean,
29 Jan. 2024
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Cane then sneaks up from behind and kills Grady’s men, freeing his father.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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Universal Studios Florida began its iteration of the attraction in 1990, SyFy noted, featuring, of course, a (mechanical) great white shark that snuck up on riders of the boat tour.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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For Sunnyvale’s Carla Klein, a close-up view of icebergs, penguins, seals and whales were among the highlights of a trip to Argentina and Antarctica earlier this year.—
Jason Mastrodonato,
Mercury News,
15 June 2025
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However, Ilulissat and its icebergs are Greenland's biggest tourist draw.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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But in the background still lurk the conditions and trends that has spurred allocators away from the USD.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
18 June 2025
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Also lurking just behind the leader is Norwegian golfer Viktor Hovland at one under par.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
31 Aug. 2024
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Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?—
Jason Zinoman,
New York Times,
15 Nov. 2023
Verb
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Decorative wooden sleeves will be slid over the bright green metal posts, the council decided, because the El Portal roundabout is within the Leucadia Streetscape renovation area.—
Barbara Henry,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 June 2025
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Middle East stocks largely fell on Sunday, and analysts expect other world markets to slide Monday over fears that rising oil prices will cause global economic disruption and lead to stagflation.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
15 June 2025
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Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.—
Alex Mar,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2023
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Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2022
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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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