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Noun
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Tyrian purple, as the dye is known, is harvested from sea snails in the murex family.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025 -
While seemingly trying to get over the initial shock of devouring snails, Megan first had to deal with how hot the sizzling dish was.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Other single-carded figures include block figures of Steve’s dog Dennis, a skeleton warrior and a creeper.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In the end, the society that's formed on Niflheim opts to not only live in peaceful concert with the creepers, but also to demolish the technology that allowed for Mickey to become an expendable in the first place.—
Megan McCluskey,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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The most compelling evidence to debunk the myth that parents are slackers comes from a work team study.—
Lieke ten Brummelhuis,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The story follows two mini-golf employees whose slacker lifestyle is upended when a demonic cult invades their town.—
Brennan Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Apr. 2025
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The laggard for the week has been the Dow Jones Industrial Average.—
JJ Kinahan,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Consumer discretionary also struggled, with Tesla , Starbucks , Chipotle , Nike , and Amazon among the notable laggards.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
5 May 2025
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Update your website's robots.txt file to explicitly allow access to legitimate AI crawlers like OpenAI's GPTBot and Google's AI systems, while still blocking problematic scrapers.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Brands and retailers’ offerings are ingested by OpenAI’s technology so long as they aren’t opted out of its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
28 Apr. 2025
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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