hootenannies

plural of hootenanny

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Noun
  • One is Enrico Lopez-Yanez, Class of 2007, a pops conductor formerly with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra who now has stints with the Detroit, Dallas and Pacific symphonies.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • This year’s guest conductor was Stuart Chafetz, principal pops conductor of the Columbus Symphony, and the Chautauqua and Marin symphonies.
    Emily Curiel May 24, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Then he got caught up in the race to perform at certain festivals and venues, turning his career into a checklist.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Where Jane’s brilliance comes in is seeing how festivals are evolving.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Ariel’s reaction to King Triton blowing up all her thingamabobs is understandable.
    Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Natalia Cardona Sanchez from Guatemala makes tropical jams with Latin American and Caribbean flavors.
    Siafa Lewis, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Others may step in when a package jams, a label fails to scan or a pallet needs human attention.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • There’s an amulet (one of those glowing doohickeys the fate of the cosmos hangs on), and your heart may sink every time someone starts chattering about it.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The net takeaway is that Warsh wants to keep markets guessing, allowing its own pricing mechanisms to react to data and handicap scenarios.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • What is needed now are mechanisms that assure that agents are working within the right context, at the right time, with the right guardrails – especially when less-technical business users are involved.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • 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 4 Jul. 2026.

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