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Recent Examples of tongue
The patches will typically appear in one area and then move to a different part of the tongue.
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Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
The condition's most severe symptoms are sensitivities to spices, salt, and sweets, which means there's no reason to worry about a geographic tongue diagnosis.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
Just turn one handle to make Yoshi run with Mario on his back or turn the dial behind Yoshi’s head to pop his tongue in and out.
—John Mihaly, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Her little wet nose and warm tongue went all over me.
—Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
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Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
The condition's most severe symptoms are sensitivities to spices, salt, and sweets, which means there's no reason to worry about a geographic tongue diagnosis.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
Just turn one handle to make Yoshi run with Mario on his back or turn the dial behind Yoshi’s head to pop his tongue in and out.
—John Mihaly, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Her little wet nose and warm tongue went all over me.
—Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue
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The expansion will also include more language support, with plans to increase access to consulting and capital assistance in Spanish and Marshallese, according to an organization news release.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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There is no time limit on how long such consultations could take, and experts say the language is flexible enough to allow each member to decide how far to go in responding to armed aggression against another.—
Matt Spetalnick,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Hiromu Yakura, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, noticed differences in his own vocabulary about a year after ChatGPT debuted in late 2022.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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Babbel isn’t like those free apps that flood you with random vocabulary.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Sep. 2025
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It is written in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, rather like someone reluctantly dredging up their memories, with random thoughts interrupting the narrative, long sentences sometimes running to over a page, little punctuation, and peppered with Kobe dialect.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Cajun dialect is a very particular one.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Because the construction is a natural and graceful part of our English idiom.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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