Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fag
Verb
  • Just as a time traveler from the 1960s would struggle to navigate modern life without learning how to operate a phone, a talented professional in 2025 who hasn’t learned to work with AI tools is out of step with reality.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Arkansas struggled offensively for the second consecutive game but gave Wood enough run support to stay comfortable.
    Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Eventually, Kartel arrives wearing a suit with his locs braided back.
    Natalie Meade, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
  • Dua Lipa and Callum Turner are officially engaged, which should feel vindicating to all those eagle-eyed celebrity news readers who spotted the pop singer wearing a diamond ring on her fourth lefthand finger in a Christmas Eve photo dump last year.
    Riann Phillip, Vogue, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • But the last pieces are always the hardest, and the weird SALT dance has the potential to snarl things even more at the last minute — especially after Speaker Johnson labored to get some of the same pro-SALT members to codify spending cuts.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 13 June 2025
  • But build rather than buy has been the Apple ethos ever since Jobs and co-founder Steve Wozniak were laboring in their garage in the mid-1970s.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 June 2025
Verb
  • The California Department of Justice will investigate a fatal shooting by Los Angeles Police Department officers under a law that empowers the state attorney general to probe police shootings of unarmed people — despite the LAPD saying the man killed Tuesday was holding a gun.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • The two teens were the third and fourth adolescents under 14 to be arrested in the Bronx for killing a bystander with a stray bullet to the head within six weeks.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • In the nearly 20 years since the show's conclusion, the loyal fanbase has pushed for a revival, and Cranston was working behind the scenes to deliver just that.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 13 June 2025
  • McCarthy worked with former tour mate Depeche Mode’s Alan Wilder on the side project Recoil, and collaborated with techno producer Terence Fixmer.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • The visa expired in February 2023, but Soliman has not exhausted legal efforts to remain in the U.S., according to NBC.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 3 June 2025
  • The object could be a white dwarf—an Earth-sized husk that remains after a star has exhausted its nuclear fuel.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 May 2025
Verb
  • These latest additional targets, combined with the rising civilian casualties in Israel, constitute an escalation where both sides are striving to alienate the opposing side’s public from its leadership.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • For the striving artists, a steady job is not a compromise but a strategic advantage, a powerful catalyst for sustained creativity and personal well-being.
    Kice Akkawi, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • The bucket full of cleaning products includes glass cleaning wipes, an interior detailer spray, a car wash and wax for the exterior, wheel and tire cleaner and microfiber cleaning cloths.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 28 May 2025
  • Though it’s long been a dream destination for visitors from the West, experiencing Japan’s capital city can tire you out (in the best way possible).
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 25 May 2025
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“Fag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fag. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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