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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 dudes
Warfare costars Charles Melton and Michael Gandolfini are two dapper dudes at IndieWire TV Honors 2026 on June 4 in Los Angeles.
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People Staff, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Screams famous-old-dudes en vacances!
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Hopefully, the dudes buy into him.
—Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2026
No sub-tweeting, no digs in the press, just two dudes with a minor disagreement hashing it out man-to-man and then moving on.
—Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
Stopping along the side of a road for a call of nature doesn’t turn out so well for the dudes in the prologue.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
In the Sixties, all the English dudes revered the lineage of Black American music.
—St. Vincent, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
As the surfing continued, vendors set up booths on the grassy knoll just off the beach, Hodad’s sold burgers from a portable outdoor kitchen and skater dudes built ramps in the beach parking lot for the Sunday skateboarding competition.
—Tony Le Calvez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Hockey dudes are a superstitious lot.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
People Staff, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Screams famous-old-dudes en vacances!
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Hopefully, the dudes buy into him.
—Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2026
No sub-tweeting, no digs in the press, just two dudes with a minor disagreement hashing it out man-to-man and then moving on.
—Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
Stopping along the side of a road for a call of nature doesn’t turn out so well for the dudes in the prologue.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
In the Sixties, all the English dudes revered the lineage of Black American music.
—St. Vincent, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
As the surfing continued, vendors set up booths on the grassy knoll just off the beach, Hodad’s sold burgers from a portable outdoor kitchen and skater dudes built ramps in the beach parking lot for the Sunday skateboarding competition.
—Tony Le Calvez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Hockey dudes are a superstitious lot.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dudes
Noun
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Summer used to be time for teens to get a part-time job, earn a few bucks and pile up some work experience.—
Joel Mathis,
TheWeek,
12 June 2026
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While the sticker shock of what is typically a $13 trip enraged the masses—the price was initially announced at $150 in April, before it got knocked down to 98 bucks in the face of public backlash—some observers, particularly those from Europe, scoffed at all the outrage.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
11 June 2026
Noun
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My job is to help the guys put them in environments and situations to be better.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
11 June 2026
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He’s been working hard with the pitching guys too.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
11 June 2026
Noun
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So are their girlfriends and wives, who support their beaus in stadiums and at home.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026
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Despite some very not-so-subtle hints from yours truly, my past beaus have never gifted me a handbag on Valentine’s Day, either.—
Michelle Baricevic,
InStyle,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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While black bears are the smallest bear in North America, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife, males can get up to about 500 pounds, with most bears weighing between 100 and 400.—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2026
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While the sterile insect release method relies primarily on sterile males reproducing with wild females, sterile male and female flies are often released at once for practical reasons.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
Noun
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For gentlemen of that era, uncivil words were violence.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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Deborah Vance, who did NOT die, ladies and gentlemen and they/thems!—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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“Dudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dudes. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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