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or fogeyish
as in stodgy
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Adjective
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Roll the Calls shatters the mold of stodgy CEO memoirs.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2026 -
Trump creates fear of a worse outcome (hostile takeover) and the other side (usually stodgy hotel managers) proposes buybacks, joint ventures, special access and the like.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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By stumbling onto the fact that her dowdy biology professor, Dr. Sam (Kathy Najimy), is a secret mad scientist.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2026
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Cher’s memorable transformation from a dowdy Italian widow residing in Brooklyn, NY, stole the movie.—
Tonya Blazio-Licorish,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Huntington, a lifelong Democrat, was accused of blimpish conservatism, jingoism or worse.—
Gary J. Bass,
New York Times,
29 June 2018
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The collective dream was for a new, democratic structure that could replace Assad’s ossified legal regime.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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And he's taken aim at the foreign policy apparatus, describing institutions like the NSC and State Department as having been ossified and out of touch.—
Franco Ordoñez,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Iraq War’s neoconservative architects suffered from a hubristic faith in American power and their own righteousness.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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At that time, millions of Iraqis joined the protests and demanded the downfall of a corrupt political system midwifed by Beltway hawks and neoconservative ideologues, which has ended up beholden to the mullahs of Iran.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
4 Dec. 2025
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Rebook or request a refund if your flight was cancelled—most carriers are offering flexible options for rescheduling within a set timeframe.—
Sophie Prideaux,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Mar. 2026
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Dylan Samberg started a set breakout for the Jets, then received the puck back and transported it through the neutral zone.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
28 Feb. 2026
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The movie had been a hit a few months earlier, though Oscar and Jude, loyal to the stage production, had quibbles with the screen adaptation.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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In return, those Revolutionary Guard commanders became Khamenei’s loyal inner circle, helping quell domestic unrest and exporting the Islamic Republic’s revolutionary ideology across the region, in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq and Yemen.—
Babak Dehghanpisheh,
NBC news,
1 Mar. 2026
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The film is faithful to the franchise’s customary angst, with riotous needle drops (and an obligatory new Nick Cave track) courtesy of Antony Genn and Martin Slattery.—
Miriam Balanescu,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2026
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That makes sense, given how Paxton styled himself as the more MAGA-faithful option.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Mar. 2026
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