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Noun
  • The Lakers’ No. 1 defense over a 24-game stretch from mid-January through early March was fool’s gold, with Hayes’ play being the most unsustainable part.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Presidents fought an undeclared war against Afghanistan for two decades costing $2.3 trillion on a fool’s errand concluding in a defeat by the Taliban.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • And a guinea pig, chickens, ducks, finches, a goose, rabbits, donkeys, pigs, a cow, goats, horses… Our family consisted of a menagerie of species.
    Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • On Easter Sunday, Duhamel took to Instagram and shared a video of himself in a blue suit removing a goose from the grille of his SUV.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Americans are advised to eat more fruits and vegetables, include a variety of protein sources—seafood, lean meats, poultry, eggs, legumes, soy products, and unsalted nuts/seeds—and opt for protein sources lower in solid fats and calories.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Botanically the fruit is a drupe, not a nut.
    Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Warblers have been known to attack cuckoos on sight.
    Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
  • In a signature segment, the Joke Wall, performers in mod regalia poked their heads out of holes in a set, like cuckoos emerging from a clock, and spouted one-liners.
    Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The women screamed as the playful monkey swept in and struck his pose.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • This is why she’s been able to hold the screen with Mullally and that monkey, by the way, the former playing her father Eli’s new romantic interest, Lori, and the latter as BJ’s new service animal after a fall from a stripper pole resulted in a spinal-cord injury.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 1 May 2025
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“Git.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/git. Accessed 16 May. 2025.

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