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as in beau
a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance
a dude given to sporting expensive suits and flashy jewelry
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Recent Examples of dude
All the music is something some Black dude did forty years ago, man.
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Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
When the film opens, things aren’t too bad for the dude.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
Chihiro and Hiruhiko were engaging in the sort of passionate but chaste dude-bro melodrama that takes place only in shōnen manga.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
And there is this dude that took a wrong turn and ended up on 49 instead of 48.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
When the film opens, things aren’t too bad for the dude.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
Chihiro and Hiruhiko were engaging in the sort of passionate but chaste dude-bro melodrama that takes place only in shōnen manga.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
And there is this dude that took a wrong turn and ended up on 49 instead of 48.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dude
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dude
Noun
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Travis Kelce’s podcast and later becoming engaged to her beau of two years.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Then Emily Simpson suggests a game to cheer up Shannon Storms Beador’s daughter Sophie, who came home from New York City for the weekend after being dumped by a beau.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Another favorite comic novel of mine, this one follows a guy in Beijing who installs custom, old school sound systems for rich people.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Travis is a perfect addition to the rogue gallery of guys Rahill consistently plays across social media — hilarious and singular character studies of very particular and deeply cringey types of dude, replete with his trademark grin.—
Justin Caffier,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The powers that be explained to me that in the audiobook, there would be no easy way to identify the bees’ chapters, which were designated with italics in the printed version, unless the narrator’s voice changed from female to male.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Kristin Andrews, a philosopher at York University, told me about gelada monkeys, which live in units consisting of one dominant male and about a dozen females.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Among its many other deft and occasionally very blunt messages, the film, directed by Australian David Michod, definitely telegraphs the hey-get-a-load-of-this-serious-actress-here-ladies-and-gentlemen transmission.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Lloyd will play Clive, a gentleman who has lost his phone at Happy’s Place and comes back to retrieve it.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Dude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dude. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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