armchair

Definition of armchairnext

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Recent Examples of armchair January 1 Kick off the New Year with an armchair trip to Austria, where the Vienna Philharmonic will present its annual New Year’s Day concert in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein for the first time without an audience. Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Jan. 2021 The New York Times picked up the story and put it on the front page – an indication of how armchair analysis could be as telling as dispatches from the ground. Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 Marsha Music has started calling herself an armchair revolutionary. Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2020 With billions of people grounded because of the coronavirus pandemic, armchair travel has never been more important, especially for parents hoping to capture their kids’ attention and imagination. Sarah Firshein, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for armchair
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Adjective
  • The OpenAI incident demonstrates that these capabilities are no longer theoretical.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Perhaps more surprisingly, Anthropic has in recent weeks also picked up a Stanford economist, a theoretical physicist from the University of Maryland, and an analytic philosopher from UT Austin.
    Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Adjective
  • The 2026 World Cup has shone a spotlight on academic spaces being at the heart of the craze and fandom for Argentina in Bangladesh.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • In 2021, Brouillette pursued a certification to become a professional firefighter through a program at Southern Maine Community College, which required both academic classes and field exercises, according to court documents.
    Curt Devine, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Adjective
  • Based on seeing a rodeo, Untitled (1948) is one of Parsons’s earliest abstract paintings.
    John Yau, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2026
  • Also on the island is Áfangar, an installation by the late American abstract artist Richard Serra.
    Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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“Armchair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armchair. Accessed 26 Jul. 2026.

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