dodder

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Recent Examples of dodder And, earlier today, at 7:23 am, one of our older Brothers, while doddering across the Reforma Promenade, was struck down and killed by a speeding motor scooter. Charles Portis, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 Probably quite poorly, conjuring images of Trump doddering around on a golf course. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 July 2024 Tel Aviv University biologist Daniel Chamovitz discusses dodder and many other fascinating plants in his upcoming book, What A Plant Knows, an excerpt from which appears in the May issue of Scientific American. Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2021 The Dodgers appeared to dodder in the first two games, running up huge pitch counts against Atlanta starters Max Fried and Ian Anderson, but failing to score a run in 14 of the first 15 innings. Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2020 Last, the researchers created a green fluorescent version of the flowering signal chemical, which provided visual evidence that dodder plant tissues can absorb the chemical and direct it to their flowering mechanisms. Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020 As for pests, experts have identified a tiny wasp, two noxious weeds (water spinach and dodder) and a larval seed beetle. Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020 The pale, curvy pillars of Phil Charlwood’s set variously represent forest trees; the cottage of the wise, doddering Sami Finn Woman (an amusing Anna Lynch); and, helped by frosty lighting designed by Doug Del Pizzo, the Snow Queen’s castle. Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2019 Cassidy took control when the Bruins were doddering along at 26-23-6, both feet firmly planted on a path to a third consecutive DNQ. BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
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Verb
  • Even then, this was staggered, with First Division clubs subject to the Green Guide from 1976 onwards and the rest three years later.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 10 May 2025
  • That’s because there are actually 15 different broods at large, 12 of them observing a 17-year schedule and three making their appearance every 13 years—and the broods’ emergences are staggered.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • And now that governments in many rich countries have sharply lurched to the right and taken more skeptical stances on aid, this industry is collapsing.
    Zainab Usman, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2025
  • German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was one of the first European leaders to grasp the long-term implications of the American lurch toward authoritarianism.
    David Axe, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Among the companies charting this alternative path is Organic India, a wellness brand that has woven regenerative organic agricultural practices into its DNA long before the term became a mainstream badge of sustainability.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The singer sported an intricate top for her time on the show — silver chains woven together to form a halter-neck shape.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 13 May 2025
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  • Dina Tomczak, the school’s athletic director, tottered into her office having barely slept.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • The nation is tottering on the edge of dictatorship.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Dodder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodder. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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