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Recent Examples of fruitcake The finish is long, sweet, and fruity with lingering fruitcake notes, dark chocolate, and a rich, oaky finish. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025 Even to a fruitcake skeptic, the cake recipes in Nature's Candy look delicious. Neda Ulaby, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024 Classics like gingerbread, fruitcake, and pumpkin pie wouldn’t be the same without it. Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024 Someone made a fruitcake with marzipan icing. Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for fruitcake
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Noun
  • For Mimi Pond, the desire to do a book about the Mitford sisters – six larger-than-life British eccentrics (and one brother) who created a stir in both British and American culture – was obvious.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the movie, there is a montage with a voiceover that shows a classroom interaction between Lohan's character and her crush, Aaron Samuels, played by Jonathan Bennett.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The wardrobe and general aesthetic of the character were also already in his mind prior to casting.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Oxo Good Grips Vegetable Chopper This one-cup chopper efficiently dices small ingredients, like garlic and nuts.
    Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • This is the best option for high-oil nuts like walnuts, pecans, macadamias, and pine nuts.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a sane world, someone who claimed that one of the most beneficial accomplishments in human history — the polio vaccine — did more harm than good would be seen as a dangerous crackpot.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Most researchers considered that a crackpot theory.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Bits of bacon, mini hot-pockets, nutter butters and doritos.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Its founder was not a member of Congress but Paul Weyrich, a hard-right nutter with theocratic leanings with a fair claim to being the Johnny Appleseed of the New Right, having also co-founded the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • That is enough to prompt scheduling a video chat with a purported demonologist (Laura Heisler) who does not seem a nutcase or charlatan.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Although My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) was made in 2020, before Libs of TikTok exposed school-teacher lunacy, writer-director Caroline Vignal proves prescient about the eccentricity that goes deeper than the profession’s nutcase radicalism.
    Armond White, National Review, 27 July 2022
Noun
  • Finally, there’s Barry weirdo Anthony Carrigan.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But most Diavel enthusiasts are moto weirdos who like their bikes to be one of a kind and fast as hell.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Fruitcake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruitcake. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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