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Recent Examples of geezer
Malgorzata is meeting him for the first time, and her X-chromosome vibrations easily win the day with the old bearded geezer.
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David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for geezer
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Specifically, state law prohibits salvage of: badger, bobcat, brant, coot, crow, cub bear, duck, elk, fisher, Florida gallinule, geese, marten, moose, otter, snipe, sora rail, spotted fawn deer, Virginia rail, wild turkey, wolf, and woodcock.—
Arpan Lobo,
Freep.com,
16 Dec. 2025
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The logger and railsplitter occasionally encounters American eccentrics, like a chatty drifter prone to sporting bible verses and an old coot of a demolitions expert with a philosophical bent.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Nov. 2025
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Bamberger, often regarded as a maverick, proved that degraded land could be revived.—
Lana Ferguson,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Hancock himself changed the genre forever through his maverick forays into jazz fusion in the 1970s.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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My job was to conceptualize and oversee a luncheon for fifty of these luminaries—with the help of a woozy codger standing in front of me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
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You meander in, consider the menu for a spell, then place your order — including the sort of beverage those codgers couldn’t imagine.—
Merrill Shindler,
Daily News,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Geezer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geezer. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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