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For now, love evades understanding—which means that finding someone will remain, much of the time, a pain in the ass.
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Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025
The hook of the action is in using the randomization of each run (or bending it using many of the items) to essentially deck build a superpowered ass-kicker of a heroine on the fly each time.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Add in writer Steven Knight’s penchant for characters who, for the want of a better phrase, kick ass and take names.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
Your character kicks a lot more ass in this movie and fights back against the Strangers.
—William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
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Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025
The hook of the action is in using the randomization of each run (or bending it using many of the items) to essentially deck build a superpowered ass-kicker of a heroine on the fly each time.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Add in writer Steven Knight’s penchant for characters who, for the want of a better phrase, kick ass and take names.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
Your character kicks a lot more ass in this movie and fights back against the Strangers.
—William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ass
donkey
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Brown and Bongiovi plan to raise their daughter on their Georgia farm, which is home to sheep, goats, cows, donkeys, cats and dogs.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Burrow Bowl is now The Burro Bowl, as both QB1s in this game have played like donkeys as of late.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Ass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ass. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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