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as in groups
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together
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as in bribes
something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decision
an IRS agent was caught accepting some boodle from people she was auditing
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Noun
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Critics and rights groups argued that both the ban and the bill function as tools for censorship, threatening freedom of expression, press freedom and fundamental rights.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025 -
Sofi was among the first groups of people recruited to work for Kings Berry Farm.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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She was infamously shown stuffing $1,000 in cash bribes into her bra in a photo that was released by the feds.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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Spagnuolo is very clear about supposed bribes paid by pharmaceutical companies in the context of purchases by Andis, to the tune of 5 to 8 percent, which were funneled directly into the pockets of the Menems and Karina.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And Mendoza, who up until then had only brought over a few smaller batches of workers for other farmers, got to work on sourcing 300 of them for King.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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In the interim, Amazon's first Kuiper batches reached low orbit courtesy of the services of other commercial providers, such as United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket and — perhaps ironically, given Musk and Bezos' previous satellite feud — Space X's Falcon 9.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The layout, designed by architect Lek Bunnag, boasts groupings of villas and semi-private pools with a main central Moon Pool and bar located on the cliffside.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The expectations were dealers would be left with fewer vehicles on their lots and prices would skyrocket on cars and trucks made outside the United States and sales would tank.—
Ed Garsten,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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And there's lots to choose from.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In addition to optimizing queries, Espresso routes queries between different compute clusters to maximize efficiency.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Yet, those clusters of information have more often led to more good decisions than bad, a lot of which is credited to the instincts of Begiristain.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The basic bands have the perfect amount of stretch and a smooth surface that doesn’t tug or snag.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The military convened marching bands and appointed a Navy lieutenant, Bill Osmanski, a fullback for the Chicago Bears, to captain the Isahaya Tigers, and a Marine Corps lieutenant, Angelo Bertelli, a Heisman-winning quarterback at Notre Dame, to lead the Nagasaki Bears.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Boodles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boodles. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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