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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
Hey Sean- Brad Pitt either has Parkinson’s or dude did an 8 ball during the hydration break.
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Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2026
Not the fun stuff — waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes — but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
The dude still has wheels, per NHL EDGE data, and the Leafs need more of that from a forward group that was slow and sluggish last season.
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Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
Remember, Bam Adebayo is a really likable dude.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for dude
Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2026
Not the fun stuff — waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes — but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
The dude still has wheels, per NHL EDGE data, and the Leafs need more of that from a forward group that was slow and sluggish last season.
—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
Remember, Bam Adebayo is a really likable dude.
—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for dude
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dude
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Page Six also caught Swift besties Ashley Avignone and Gigi Hadid, as well as Hadid's beau, Bradley Cooper, en route from the model's Manhattan apartment.
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After a year apart, Bruss moved back to Los Angeles to be with her beau and the rest was history.
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Kahan headlines Rolling Stone’s inaugural Stateside Festival on July 4, just ahead of his return to Fenway on July 18 and 19, where 70,000 people will get to see a guy with his guitar absolutely captivate.
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Then, oh yeah, defenses can’t focus too much on those guys because of how much attention Joel Embiid commands.
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Witnesses reported the suspects as two males in a 1990s white, two-door sedan, similar to a Honda Accord, with tinted windows, police said.
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That’s compared with 5% of cisgender male and 11% of cisgender female students.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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That is some business that the gentlemen are discussing.
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“Dude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dude. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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