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
Noun
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Sunlight, scalpers and symphonies, in readers’ eyes.—
Letters to the Editor,
Washington Post,
16 Mar. 2026
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Now back in Cincinnati, LaVigne performs all over the world with symphonies, at special events and as a cruise headliner.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
26 Feb. 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 international film community—including the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice festivals and the American Cinematheque—spoke out against these persecutions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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The option of instead using bollards aims to allow for the downtown area to be utilized for community events and festivals without the use of village vehicles and instead use the bollards at Prospect Avenue and Ann Street and at Park Avenue.—
Chuck Fieldman,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Co-writes from Brandi Carlile and vocals from Chris Stapleton can’t save it; the choruses can’t muster up the old dopamine hits; even the trademark Dessner doohickeys seem absent, just uninspired arrangements with heavily Melodyned vocals.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 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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Working with strict limitations—no more than five instruments; just one hour to make each track—the two West Coast leftfield vets turn out a surprisingly expansive set of wooly electronic jams.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
30 Mar. 2026
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And all shows and jams ceased to exist.—
Des Moines Register,
Des Moines Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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Any efforts to meaningfully regulate insider trading would, in my view, require clear rules and viable enforcement mechanisms.—
Parker Bach,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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The individual mechanisms each have real research behind them.—
Allison Palmer,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 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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