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dodoes

noun

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plural of dodo

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a person with old-fashioned ideas youngsters helping old dodos learn to use computers

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a stupid person she called him a dodo after he lost the concert tickets

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Recent Examples of dodoes After embarking on the quest to bring back dodos, the company also teamed up with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation to create native habitats in which the bird survived before its extinction. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025 Colossal's de-extinction projects now span dodos, dire wolves, mammoths, and moas. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025

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The rare open Senate seat has ignited a scramble among South Carolina’s most ambitious conservatives, who have been eager to climb the political ladder.

— Meg Kinnard, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026
Labor organizations and conservatives are skeptical of any program that expands the use of foreign labor.

— Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 10 July 2026

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The money will finance dozens of routine but essential items, such as a new roof, a 24-seat school bus and outrigger canoes that will be used by military veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress.

— Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 10 July 2026
Brit Elazouar has been cast in the lead role of Jason, a young police officer on his first assignment with an elite tactical unit of Afghanistan veterans.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 July 2026

Definition of veterans

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There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.

— McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026

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These timeframes were determined by dating the sediment layers in which the fossils were encased.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
Tucked into the southwest corner of Wyoming is Fossil Butte National Monument, a landmark boasting one of the largest deposits of freshwater fish fossils in the world.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026

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