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Recent Examples of dodo In fact, on that album, Guyton often relies on the rarest dodo on all of Music Row: an all-women writers’ room. Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025 In addition to bringing back the dire wolf, other Colossal projects focus on bringing back the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo, all of which have been extinct for hundreds to thousands of years. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025 Colossal has been working toward resurrecting the mammoth, dodo and Tasmanian tiger since 2021, but the company had not previously publicized its work on dire wolves. Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025 The startup had been working the past few years on three species: the mammoth, their marquee animal, which Lamm estimates will be ready by 2028, plus the dodo and the thylacine, a marsupial also known as the Tamsanian tiger. Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dodo
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Noun
  • According to a new study in Cretaceous Research, scientists have identified a new lekking site at Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado — a spot famous for its iconic fossils, including Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and more.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • These fossils, possibly brought by ancient trade networks, suggest a fascinating intersection of natural history and human activity.
    Real-Time news team, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Three of the court’s conservatives – Roberts, Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh – joined the three liberals in rejecting conservative challenges to Obamacare and to an internet subsidy program.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, conservatives, worried about the nation’s debt, are pushing for steeper cuts.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 June 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
  • Burks signed a one-year veteran minimum contract with the Heat last summer and again will likely need to settle for a minimum deal to re-sign with the Heat this summer.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • Brogdon, 32, is a nine-year veteran who has played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Indiana Pacers, Boston Celtics, Portland Trail Blazers and Wizards.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The winners of the Round of 16 games advance to the quarterfinals, while the losers move on to the classification games for places 9-16.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
  • Lee’s sensitive, evolving turn as Gi-hun — deeply human amid the madness, paranoia and murder set in bright green and pink surroundings — has made the character the ideal litmus test for Hwang’s critique of an economic system designed to produce titanic winners and losers who face annihilation.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • The toilet does the heavy work automatically with an electromechanical system, so all the owner of said waste has to do is grab the sealed, odorless bag and drop it in the garbage, much like a mutt mitt.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 May 2025
  • Remember when this series started, the Nuggets were heavy underdogs, viewed as mutts.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 May 2025

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“Dodo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodo. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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