Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fag
Verb
  • Traditional data lakes can store raw data at scale but lack quality controls, while warehouses enforce structure but struggle with unstructured or fast changing data.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Almost half of those who abided by boundaries (45%) reported low burnout, compared to 6% of those who struggled to do so.
    Samantha Dewalt, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The photo released shows what appears to be a man wearing a largely black outfit with an American flag on his shirt, a black cap, and black sunglasses.
    Connor Greene, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Posing next to Colman Domingo and Salma Hayek Pinault (who wore an elegant black Balenciaga suit dress), Moore’s glitzy look shone.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Chiefs players spent training camp laboring at hot, humid Missouri Western State University.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • During that season Clark was laboring to teach all his defensive linemen a new technique to use, and players would have to film themselves working on it, and send it into the coaches.
    Omar Kelly August 23, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Utah police on Friday arrested Tyler Robinson for allegedly killing right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, although his potential motive remains hazy.
    Claire Cameron, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Key Background Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was killed in an unprovoked attack on a commuter rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Alfred is arguably the second-best 200-meter runner among the three and will work hard to secure a gold medal at these championships.
    Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Long said six campus police officers were working the event, including some in plainclothes who were monitoring the crowd.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Texans were up 28-21, and Keller had exhausted all of its timeouts.
    Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Lula was imprisoned in 2018, but he was released in November 2019 after the Supreme Court ruled that defendants can’t be jailed before exhausting appeal options.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Chronic striving has its downsides, though.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When multiple businesses strive to outdo each other, the result is better products, improved services and more choices for consumers.
    Levi King, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Then eventually, the fish starts to tire out.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • So people shouldn’t swim against the current, which puts them at risk of tiring out.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Fag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fag. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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