eight balls

plural of eight ball

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • One analyst who praised the plan was accused of being a race traitor, and other critics have voiced fears that China will be overrun by outsiders.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The frequent shift in specific frequencies used could prevent outsiders from finding the signal.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The community-centric atmosphere of today’s climbing gyms signals a departure from the sensibility of bygone eras, when climbers styled themselves as misfits and loners set apart from society at-large.
    Kelli María Korducki, HubSpot, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The ultimate goal, then, seems to be nothing less than the complete supplanting of MAGA with a new political movement—an angry, ultra-conspiratorial, unbiblical, neo-pagan movement of misfits and their hangers-on.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Jazz is an art form with an outsized share of mavericks, rebels, and creative dissidents who’ve built careers by blazing their own particular paths.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Cool people aren't merely deviants.
    Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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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