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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deuced
Adjective
  • Related Stories Pandora’s Box conceals the names of cursed contestants – marking them for elimination and setting the stakes for survival – as players battle to keep their names out of the Box.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Annie was the second person sent out of the game after her cursed Kele tribe lost their fifth straight team or individual competition.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Again, the idea of the freaking Crimson Tide celebrating a win over Vandy is just as bizarre as Vandy being in a big game to begin with.
    Jason Kirk, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Some accredited investors have 'no freaking clue' Even investors who already qualify as accredited could welcome, and benefit from, such a test, experts say.
    Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Apparently, Canadians are very pissed off at us and don't feel like visiting and spending their money here, which is awful because there are so many businesses that rely upon Canadians and tourists from other countries.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The cold was awful, but the rain that was predicted never came.
    Mariana Enriquez October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Ripley spent four movies trying to keep the blasted things off our home world, but those pesky Xenomorphs are coming planetside anyway in Alien: Earth, the new Alien TV series.
    Ian Stokes, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Midler and Hawn co-starred alongside Keaton in 1996’s The First Wives Club, with the stars portraying divorcées who wonderfully, wickedly take revenge on their terrible former spouses.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In the 1970s, when game replays of both programs aired late Saturday nights on public television in Dubuque, Iowa and Wisconsin were equally terrible, and the city was fertile ground for whichever program got off the mat.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • An allied assertion is that if AI generates foul code, tell the AI to get its act together and fix the darned stuff.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lit candles, images on paper and a plaster statue of the folk saint Gauchito Gil, flowers in green plastic bottles, simple bouquets of jasmine floating in rotten water inside coffee cans, a lot of plastic flowers to keep the place colorful.
    Mariana Enriquez October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Karen Read case exposed just how rotten the Bay State justice system can be.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Deuced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deuced. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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