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Recent Examples of folderol The worst instance of intersectional folderol is Jeffrey Wright’s subplot exploiting the racially confused legacy of both James Baldwin and Anatole Broyard. Armond White, National Review, 5 Nov. 2021 Yet most Americans are barely aware of the political folderol that has been going on for years. Delthia Ricks, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2010 But this is a mess of its own making, a needless folderol that accomplished nothing beyond making the group seem messy and divided. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022 For instance, designer David Zinn has built the show a lovely Buckingham Palace, repeating the gilt folderol of the Longacre Theatre’s proscenium on the columns and gates that enclose the stage. Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for folderol 
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Noun
  • For constipation, drink fluids and gradually increase fiber intake from sources like bran, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds to promote regular bowel movements.
    Patricia Weiser, PharmD, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Small packages like candy and nuts often slide around and clutter your space.
    Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Not to be the bearers of bad news, but your garbage disposal isn’t as good at disposing of garbage as the name implies.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
  • There are two piles of garbage close to the Stage Star Deli at 105 West 55th Street, where the CCTV camera was recording.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • He’s earned the right to lift his cape out of the muck and leave Rome behind.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The Steelers thrive in the muck of turnovers, penalties and third-down failure.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Kennedy has elevated threats to the livelihoods of scientists who have resisted his brand of balderdash from the implicit to the explicit.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
  • While schools do exist in rough tiers of selectivity, size, excellence, prestige and so forth, the idea of precise rankings is balderdash.
    David M. Perry, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • That may not be a huge sum of money in a county with an annual operating budget of nearly $5 billion, but it’s got to rank high in sheer stupidity or at least neglect.
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
  • But in Judge’s intentionally crass lament (which somehow becomes more prescient and troublesome by the day), our rampant national boorishness and stupidity was sort of the point.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Many Red Sox fans have had it up to here with that building-for-the-future claptrap, so much so that expectations were scary low coming into the 2024 season.
    Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
  • Is there a remedy for claptrap like the BMJ article?
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
Noun
  • The public is simply not buying it and is looking for an alternative. Enough of the twaddle about how voting Democratic is voting to save democracy.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Perhaps News Nation is trying to assume the mantle of Fox News as a dispenser of right-wing twaddle, or (to be more charitable) of CNN as a sober neutral voice.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
Noun
  • The Sun Sentinel’s hysterical condemnation of Trump is so much partisan blather.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 May 2024
  • While these events are supposed to motivate voters and help reach out to the undecided, modern conventions more often are uninspired echo chambers of blather.
    Shannon Bow O'Brien, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024

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“Folderol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folderol. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.

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