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as in comedian
a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor
you're really a card, but save the jokes for after class
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Recent Examples of card
Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
The nine-year-old, known as Wolfie, was pictured making a handmade card in a photo shared by his mother, Dara Huang.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 22 Mar. 2026
Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The transition to card payment systems may not be easy for everyone.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Nashville Predators Nashville traded away four players at the deadline, including Nick Blankenburg to Colorado, and yet is still hanging around in the wild-card race.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
The nine-year-old, known as Wolfie, was pictured making a handmade card in a photo shared by his mother, Dara Huang.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 22 Mar. 2026
Verb
Google DeepMind extended Gemini into robotics with capabilities ranging from folding origami to card manipulation.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The transition to card payment systems may not be easy for everyone.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for card
Noun
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Its owners, Eric Finkelstein and Matt Ross, are sandwich freaks in the best possible way; on the shop’s vast menu, not a single sandwich is a dud.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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Tap the three-dot menu in the upper right corner, then tap Block and report spam, then confirm by tapping Yes.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Ulmen has been a household name in Germany for decades, first as a MTV VJ, then as a comedian and actor on hit series including Jerks and crime procedural Tatort, and in films, including Berlin Blues (2003), and Maria, ihm schmeckt’s nicht!—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Mar. 2026
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Actor and comedian Jack Black, along with musical guest Jack White, is poised to welcome audiences back with a Jack-on-Jack meeting.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Charges were filed on Sunday in the deadly shooting of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman last week.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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For example, individual filers can receive up to $994, couples filing jointly can receive $1,491, and those providing essential care to SSI recipients can receive up to $498.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power Saturday after high winds raked eastward from the Great Lakes region, leaving trees down and substantial property damage in their wake.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Mar. 2026
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The wood jambs supporting your front and back entryways can quickly get coated with pollen during springtime, and mowing and raking the lawn kicks up dust and dirt that settles along the frame.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
15 Mar. 2026
Verb
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According to Cirium, an aviation analytics company, advance-booking directional data show a notable decline in transatlantic travel demand for summer 2026.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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Earlier this year, the Orange County Jail, which acts as a regional holding center for people detained, had as many as 185 people on a single day booked without criminal charges beyond their immigration violation.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
Verb
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And if the idea of combing through your spending history gives you the ick, plug your info into a financial app like Quicken Simplifi.—
Harlan Vaughn,
CNBC,
23 Mar. 2026
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The strike caused an intense fire at the hospital, with footage from local television showing rescue crews combing through the wreckage with flashlights late into the night as firefighters struggled to extinguish the blaze.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The limit is indexed for inflation after 2027.—
Jessica Dickler,Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,
CNBC,
23 Mar. 2026
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Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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So far, the mission has cataloged nearly 7,900 candidates known as TESS Objects of Interest, with 759 of them already confirmed as planets.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
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Their task that day was to catalog the organisms living in the grassland.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Card.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/card. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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