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Recent Examples of galootIce cream that dropped from some galoot’s cone, and is now melting on the sidewalk?
Incorrect.—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025 But the energetic, foul-mouthed galoot seems mainly focused on drilling through ice for a swim as often as possible.—Will Tizard, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024 Our heroes — on a simple quest to find one hulking, hairy galoot — have to traverse a dark, dangerous, and honestly pretty fake-looking forest, filled with enormous insects and other strange surprises.—Noel Murray, Vulture, 19 June 2024 Henri was a tall galoot with a hawk nose, very little chin, and a prominent Adam’s apple.—Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023 Nobody plays a big galoot better than Marino and Ron can be profoundly annoying and ridiculous, the worst of the try-hards.—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023 Winston Duke, my favorite big galoot, gets to have a little fun as the garrulous tribal leader M’Baku, but the new character Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), who is intended for a Disney+ TV spin-off, feels a bit lost in the shuffle.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022 Stefan, if something of a sad sack, is also a charming big galoot who sincerely believes in love.—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022 And yes, that left-handed galoot in the fairway goes by the name of Phil Mickelson.—David Weiss, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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.
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.
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Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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.
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.
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David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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