fawner

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Noun
  • After abruptly leaving the Chicago stop of her and Monica‘s The Boy Is Mine Tour, Brandy Norwood is explaining her exit and apologizing to fans.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Lorde and Charli ended the duet together, joyously dancing and swinging their admittedly very similar long, dark curls in a moment of intense catharsis for both the artists and their raucous fans.
    Rachel Scharf, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Besides being mugged by one of Iza’s henchmen, a brick was thrown through his window and his car was vandalized.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Clarke played villain henchmen Mac in the film partly set and filmed in Sydney, Australia.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This draft meeting resembled a bully in the high school cafeteria seeking toadies — any veneer of scouting objectivity was shed.
    Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In the past, Newsom denounced judges who ruled against them as toadies of the firearms industry.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Others wore inflatable costumes, dressed as bumble bees, frogs, unicorns and a even minion.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Cederquist is one of scores of bad cops included in the book, as is one of his minions in the Stoughton crew, a guy named Calvin Butner.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These methods sort through the DNA in a sample looking for specific genes that are signatures of parasites like pinworms, as well as bacterial pathogens.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Extreme temperatures, parasites, viruses, fungi, and bacteria are also major dangers.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If there were a Cruelty Olympics, Trump’s sycophants would all be elbowing each other for the gold.
    Gustavo Arellano, Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The only character who seems entirely transparent is Frederik, who can’t hide his resentment of his second-class spousal status or his contempt for the sycophants and mediocrities who cling to his wife like barnacles.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Culinary producer Mallary Santucci has been a Dansko devotee since her days working on the line in restaurants.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Syrah devotees will enjoy fruit flavors, like black plum, cassis, and black raspberry, with touches of crushed violet petal and pencil lead in the finish.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lightly scrub with a sponge or soft brush, then remove the product.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Plants act like sponges, Martineau explained.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Fawner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fawner. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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