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Noun
  • While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • What did you guys do to prepare to be on-screen journalists?
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.
    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.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The two men became friends, or at least acquaintances, in the late 1980s and had a falling out in 2004.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Royals finished 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position and left three men on base.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Hombre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hombre. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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