blasties

plural of blastie, Scottish

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Noun
  • While her daughter and her friends were playing, Kerry noticed a snake in her garden and, knowing her brother liked animals and lived nearby, sought out his help.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
  • An online fundraiser for Moore’s memorial describes him only as a 30-year-old man and includes pictures of his posing with animals and near his mother’s gravestone.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • According to Abbott, Yuba County Environmental Health conducted the inspection after receiving a complaint about Ranch Market and found a vermin infestation that could not be immediately corrected on-site.
    Velvet Wu June 17, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026
  • Much of the exhibit was inspired by community voices, including by children who’d told museum staff about rat bites and about vermin so large, they were mistaken for stray cats.
    Camille Borders, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • What happens in a world where young people are always rendered as creatures of the present, rather than also existing in the past?
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
  • Coffin co-directed four of those movies and voices every last one of the yellow creatures himself.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Simply set out bowls of coffee grounds among your outdoor seating areas to prevent ants, mosquitoes, fruit flies, and squirmy critters from crashing your barbecue.
    Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
  • The brain as a black box In the race to understand our brains, Danionella has some key advantages over other more common lab critters like rodents.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
    Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-​skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-​skinned developing world.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
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“Blasties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasties. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.

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