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as in clumps
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as in chews
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Noun
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McNeil’s movie focuses on Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope pusher made famous in Ridley Scott’s 2007 druggy saga American Gangster, which was based on a New York magazine article by Mark Jacobson.—
Steve Bloom,
HollywoodReporter,
24 June 2025 -
That’s perhaps to demonstrate how unaffected and unscathed that J.B., a comfortably middle-class white guy who comes from a comfortably middle-class family, is from all that noise of draft dodgers, dope fiends, and radical feminists banging on the door.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
Verb
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This naturally leads to reporters questioning how the meat tastes.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
26 Dec. 2024
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Either way, there is a better way to sip a creamy alcoholic drink that actually tastes like something without having to resort to saccharine premade nog.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
24 Dec. 2024
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“Gums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gums. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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