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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eight balls
Noun
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The narrator’s family has moved to an affluent part of Bengaluru, and their attempts to head off meddling outsiders are at times subtle, at times pugnacious, but always hilarious.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
27 May 2026 -
Rayo, meanwhile, are 3/1 outsiders in the match betting, 11/4 to win in normal time and 7/4 to claim the trophy outright.—
Dean Jones,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Once the lovable expansion misfits, the Vegas Golden Knights have now become the black hat-wearing Oakland Raiders of the National Hockey League.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
1 June 2026
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The film — which follows a group of misfits who are pulled through a portal into a cubic world and guided by an expert crafter named Steve (played by Black) — debuted to a record $163 million domestic opening and ultimately grossed $960 million worldwide.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
30 May 2026
Noun
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Carl Anka Trent Alexander-Arnold’s England career is a fascinating case study in why team sports can prefer the orthodox to the mavericks.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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The confluence at Black Mountain of émigré artists like Josef and Anni Albers with homegrown mavericks like John Cage and Buckminster Fuller (who constructed his first geodesic dome there) marked an early flowering of this mode of learning, which was still in fine health decades later.—
Christopher Benfey,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The forty-niners are elemental to our identity as a nation of brave, rugged individualists.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Those who don’t cling to the faith are heretics.—
Kerry Jackson,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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Among those applauding at the end was Carmen Chaplin, one of the director’s granddaughters, and even heretics, whose faith in Chaplin is fickle, will have been swept along.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Eight balls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eight%20balls. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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