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or dodos
1
as in stuffed shirts
a person with old-fashioned ideas
youngsters helping old dodos learn to use computers
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2
as in morons
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dodoes
Noun
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The married duo — who last won first place almost a decade ago in 2016 — shut the floor down like veterans reclaiming their crown.—
Alexa Stone
Updated October 21,
Kansas City Star,
21 Oct. 2025
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This included underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities, women, veterans, LGBTQ individuals, and people with disabilities.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Oct. 2025
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However, an image of the dummies shared by leaker Sonny Dickson indicates Samsung's finally making room for magnetic rings at the back.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Oct. 2025
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But for the most part, these competitors were dummies all around, with even the biggest threats deeply flawed or actively annoying in some way.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2025
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The fossils of the new dinosaur species, named Huayracursor jaguensis, were found in the Santo Domingo Formation in the Andes of La Rioja province in northwestern Argentina, according to a paper Thursday in Nature.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
18 Oct. 2025
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The team used laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS), a technique that uses direct micro-scale sampling to provide high-precision elemental and isotope analyses of solid materials, to scan Neanderthal molars and other hominid fossils.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Oct. 2025
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Pick up fresh pasta, sushi, juices, dips, and salads to take home, or order a pizza from the shop’s in-house restaurant Cooper’s Wood-Fired Kitchen.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 Oct. 2025
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Consider using dips Maybe your child wants to try something new, but taking a whole bite of a new dish is super scary to them.—
Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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These include things like oats, coconut glycerin, and peanut butter in the lumps of coal biscuits, oats, peanut butter and bacon in the bac’n nutty biscuits, and chickpeas, tapioca flour and apples in the brushy sticks.—
Christine Persaud,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Cut into potatoes, and scoop the flesh into a food processor; process until no lumps remain, about 1 minute.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For decades, ambitious conservatives seeking to connect with their peers and climb the ladder in Topeka have joined the Kansas Young Republicans.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
18 Oct. 2025
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Maduro has been in the crosshairs of American conservatives for decades.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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Brown and Bongiovi plan to raise their daughter on their Georgia farm, which is home to sheep, goats, cows, donkeys, cats and dogs.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Burrow Bowl is now The Burro Bowl, as both QB1s in this game have played like donkeys as of late.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
29 Sep. 2025
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To be funny while playing a character who’s sweet and endearing (even when calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and Bad Bunny has it.—
Rima Parikh,
Vulture,
5 Oct. 2025
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For a bunch of idiots, this did not work out too badly.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Dodoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodoes. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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