daredevils

plural of daredevil
as in cowboys
a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear that little daredevil has broken an arm and an ankle this year alone

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Recent Examples of daredevils Bringing together some of today’s most innovative stunt designers, this conversation traces the craft’s journey from early cinematic daredevils to today’s painstaking choreography; and its long fight for overdue Academy recognition. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
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Noun
  • Still, there’s clearly some lingering bad blood between the two old cowboys.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The clouds are as much a character in Murphy’s work as the cowboys, though the former are unchanged since the Oceti Sakowin first formed their confederacy.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Whether or not Alice lived happily ever after, Gertrude seems to have done so, at least once her devils were banished by inscrutability.
    Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Weapons seems to break such cycles, leaving no more devils hiding in basements or upstairs bedrooms playing with dolls or ribbons of hair.
    Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were madmen marching the United States toward nuclear war.
    Isaac Schorr, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025

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