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Recent Examples of Synonyms for basket cases
alarms
Noun
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Critics, including her fellow conspiracist Alex Jones, have raised alarms about her rhetoric.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2026 -
But rights groups and the Catholic Church have raised alarms that revenues from extraction rarely reach the rural and indigenous communities that live closest to mining and drilling operations, while foreign companies and a small national elite capture most of the profits.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Basket cases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basket%20cases. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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