Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hootenannies
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And this doesn’t include the little four-facial-expression thingamajigs in airport restrooms that ask you to rank cleanliness by touching them.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
28 Dec. 2025
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But the symphonies’ start-and-stop contrasts and obsessive rhythmic gestures challenge the conductor to manage the ebb and flow of energy within overarching structures.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Jan. 2026
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Fifty years ago, that meant Stevie Wonder embracing the synthesizer, a machine critics at the time called soulless, to compose symphonies from a keyboard.—
William Jones,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
10 Oct. 2025
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The rebrand comes amid a small wave of new exhibition opportunities for independent films, which have had trouble selling out of film festivals amid Hollywood’s larger contraction.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Jan. 2026
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Wine festivals have a reputation.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
10 Oct. 2025
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Ty, who grew up in Breckenridge, also has eyes on other high-end outdoor doohickeys to complement the Skyloft Van.—
Max Scheinblum,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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More than 200 producers sell seasonal fruit and vegetables, breads and cheeses of every kind, charcuterie, olives and tapenades, quiches, jams, and honey—and that's just the food section.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Jan. 2026
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The album’s maximalist approach, combining an array of live instruments, VSTs, and samplers, sometimes coheres into true jams.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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Discoveries about the underlying technical mechanisms within LLMs are showing us more so how AI personas happen under-the-hood.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The film is set in the artistic and academic milieu and portrays the silent mechanisms of exclusion and the emotional toll of waiting, fear and uncertainty, while examining how political systems shape the most intimate decisions of everyday life.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2026
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These new doodads are often flashy, but always seem a little off the mark.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Hootenannies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hootenannies. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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