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Recent Examples of dodo The company also aspires to de-extinct mammoths, dodos and Tasmanian tigers. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025 Keyte, the dodo director, reported that her group had been looking at the ninety thousand genetic differences between the dodo and its extant relatives, trying to map out which gene or genes were responsible for which characteristic. D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 One criminal marketplace, however, has remained as dead as a dodo for the last nine years, with no activity of any sort observed by dark web threat intelligence analysts. Davey Winder, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 Colossal is also making progress on another project, announced in 2023, to bring back the dodo. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dodo
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Noun
  • Brown started by studying CT scans of a young Corythosaurus skull, which captured the fossil’s inner airways in fine detail.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • And the proof was found in the fossils.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In his second term, states’ rights, once a rallying cry for conservatives, are under pressure.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The current round of liberal hand-wringing about how conservatives have become far better at driving the political conversation stems in large part from Kirk.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Its proposals to support grocery stores in stocking more produce, introduce markets to food deserts, serve healthy meals to students and veterans, and limit junk-food ads targeted at children all sound promising, but the report offers few specifics on implementation.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2025
  • According to a statement from the North Little Rock police Department, Norman, a 27-year veteran of the department, was charged with one count of domestic battery in the third degree.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The houseguests then voted between the two comp losers, and when Julie announced the results, Will was evicted by a vote of 3-2 and became the season’s second jury member.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of scrolling Twitter, read something about a cranky, divorced loser, like The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei, and translated by Canaan Morse.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.
    Alison Snyder, Axios, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
  • So while the French Bulldog nabbed the AKC's top spot for the third year in a row, the winner using Rover's set of criteria was clear: the ever-popular mixed breed — or as many dog lovers affectionately call them, a good old-fashioned mutt.
    Sarah Scanlan, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Dodo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodo. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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