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Recent Examples of fella
What’s a fella to do when an executive order won’t fix a problem?
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U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Naturally, a fella like this also appeared on Game of Thrones.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 27 July 2025
Meanwhile, my assistant Tony — who’s only a little fella — skipped over the rope and walked behind the metal detector without anyone even noticing.
—Matthew Schnipper, Vulture, 22 July 2025
Twenty, thirty or forty million dollars will allow a fella to divert attention from his own mistakes and celebrate his substantial accomplishments.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
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U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Naturally, a fella like this also appeared on Game of Thrones.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 27 July 2025
Meanwhile, my assistant Tony — who’s only a little fella — skipped over the rope and walked behind the metal detector without anyone even noticing.
—Matthew Schnipper, Vulture, 22 July 2025
Twenty, thirty or forty million dollars will allow a fella to divert attention from his own mistakes and celebrate his substantial accomplishments.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fella
Noun
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While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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What did you guys do to prepare to be on-screen journalists?—
David Wysong,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The powers that be explained to me that in the audiobook, there would be no easy way to identify the bees’ chapters, which were designated with italics in the printed version, unless the narrator’s voice changed from female to male.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Kristin Andrews, a philosopher at York University, told me about gelada monkeys, which live in units consisting of one dominant male and about a dozen females.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Plenty of people, critics or otherwise, weighed in online, often piling on about their distaste for a perfectly adequate, somewhat imperfect, modestly ambitious thriller that’s mostly about a very intense dude trying to protect his adult children.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Fella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fella. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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