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Adjective
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By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.—
Mike McCahill,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2023 -
Carbon condenses into sooty dust in the rapidly whirling wind, which glows in infrared light that is invisible to the human eye.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
12 Oct. 2022
Verb
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Wedding tradition in the South is nothing to be messed with.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2026
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In her fifty-seven years of wandering, nobody had messed with her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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An arriving officer arrested the Parma Heights resident, who was crocked, for disorderly conduct.—
John Benson,
cleveland,
10 Nov. 2021
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Although the treaty promised an annuity, payments were often late or siphoned off to crocked traders.—
Letter Writers,
Twin Cities,
8 Aug. 2019
Verb
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Extreme deficits may lead to obsessive food tracking, anxiety around eating, or disordered eating patterns.—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
6 Jan. 2026
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These measurements revealed that the second conductivity drop occurred when the atomic structure of the warm dense aluminum suddenly lost its orderly arrangement and became disordered.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Many of us long for the days of the old South Beach, with its neighborhood bakeries, languid pace, shabby but genuine character, and the retired people who loved the place.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Don’t let the term ‘first flat’ fool you—Diana’s early digs were anything but shabby.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Whatever the case, the result is easily the franchise’s worst effort, riddled with muddled motivations, inconsistent characters and a serious identity crisis.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Conte believed that the muddled thinking and questionable ambition of the club’s hierarchy, then led by chairman Daniel Levy, would also be costly.—
Dan Kilpatrick,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Returning from exile, the Roman statesman found his property vandalized; his scrolls jumbled, torn, and scattered.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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That all got jumbled when Vonn crashed 13 seconds into her downhill run and reportedly broke her leg.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But the pair had plenty to say about making their classic comedy, which proved definitively that women could both write and headline a raunchy ensemble comedy —getting drunk on planes, vomiting in wedding dress shops, and having diarrhea in the street.—
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
24 Feb. 2026
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Tyler Perry warned of 'raunchy' movie Nearly a week before the film premiered on Netflix, Perry warned fans once more that the movie is not for little ones.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Collied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collied. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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