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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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As the investigations continued Tuesday into two separate mass shootings allegedly perpetrated over the weekend by Marine veterans wielding assault rifles, one in Michigan and the other in North Carolina, numerous questions remain unanswered -- chief among them motive.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Done right, remakes can be a fantastic way to introduce a franchise to a new audience, but also have to be transformative enough that veterans who’ve played the original come away with a different experience.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 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 band’s fans gleefully push to the front of their gigs in order to get blasted with any manner of fake bodily fluids that erupt from the towering, cartoonish dummies.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These chemical fossils—the molecular remnants of once-living organisms that have been buried, transformed, and preserved in sediment over time—were discovered in rocks that date back to more than 541 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Megaraptorans were found across Asia, Australia and South America, but the understanding of the group has been restricted in the past due to a lack of complete fossils, according to the paper.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
24 Sep. 2025
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The terrace out front is lively on a summer’s day, as locals take dips in the water and sip beer from the nearby Mikkeller Baghaven brewery.—
Chloe Arrojado,
AFAR Media,
26 Sep. 2025
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Homicide numbers in Kansas City have been consistently high over the past nine years though there were dips in 2018, 2021 and 2024, according to annual reports for the Kansas City Police Department and numbers The Star tracks.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
26 Sep. 2025
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Overwashing, particularly with down and cotton, can weaken the fibers and compress the batting, says Holmes, which can cause lumps and bumps in your once cozy comforter.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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And wait a minute, these are real lumps.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
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The killing sparked a tense national debate over partisan rhetoric and politically motivated violence, with many conservatives calling for the firing of otherwise non-public figures who celebrated Kirk's death or spoke ill of him in some way.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Both started out as pretty firm conservatives, but eventually saw the court transform into a far more conservative group of justices.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
27 Sep. 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.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
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The two rescue animals, who once faced an uncertain future, join Stewart's four other horses, along with a diverse array of pets, including cats, dogs, donkeys, chickens, geese, and a pony.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Anyone that votes for those people are absolute idiots.—
Gerardo Zavala,
NPR,
20 Sep. 2025
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Because some of them act like complete idiots, but Wendy is constantly outsmarting everyone.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Dodoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodoes. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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