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Recent Examples of hootenanny
Howl at hootenanny Ozark Natural Science Center presents the annual Bear Hollow Hootenanny fundraiser Saturday and Sunday at the center's main campus north of Huntsville adjacent to the Madison County Wildlife Management Area.
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Arkansas Online,
14 Oct. 2025
High-tech met high-proof hootenanny, and nobody looked back.
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Bob Bonniol,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
In Jackson Hole, the Bar-T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout & Show transports guests in covered wagons to an alfresco meal accompanied by a hootenanny, an homage to campfire singalongs.
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Cnt Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Sep. 2020
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Arkansas Online,
14 Oct. 2025
High-tech met high-proof hootenanny, and nobody looked back.
—
Bob Bonniol,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
In Jackson Hole, the Bar-T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout & Show transports guests in covered wagons to an alfresco meal accompanied by a hootenanny, an homage to campfire singalongs.
—
Cnt Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Sep. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hootenanny
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Separated by decades of time and distance and different lines of work, the members decided to get back together for an informal jam session two summers ago in Seattle, where McCaffrey lives.
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Susanna Hoffs, a singer and guitarist, responded to an ad the sisters placed for a female musician, which led to a garage jam session in Hoffs' parents' basement, per the Los Angeles Times.
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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.
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Lenovo’s claim appears to be that the Legion 9i can fully cool itself with this method, no thingamajig needed.
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As with other global cultural events, such as the Venice Biennale currently underway in Italy, the glittery annual songfest is intended as a display of goodwill and togetherness between nations.
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Here, this happily deluded dingus is played by a modern master of the type, David Cross.
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Companion, meanwhile, quickly makes clear what a dingus Josh is; the film seems uninterested in deeper character study, instead just generating turns aplenty to keep up the momentum.
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Crawford also doubled to lead off the sixth, but Chandler worked his way out of that jam, striking out both Turner and Kyle Schwarber, then retiring Harper on a soft grounder to second.
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Others may step in when a package jams, a label fails to scan or a pallet needs human attention.
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Using a mechanism known as attention, transformers compare every token in a sequence to every other token in that sequence.
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The combination of heat and humidity can be dangerous for humans, because humidity impacts how sweat evaporates, and that’s a cooling mechanism.
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This evolved into a new wave of ceilidh pride — from rural Scots to the diaspora in New York and Melbourne — with TikTok users reimagining traditional dance culture through a modern electronic lens.
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Apparently the best and prettiest dancer gets chosen, but the only thing Ellen really cares about is that Brian also makes his way into the ceilidh and winds up her temporary partner during the group dance.
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Wicks ends up dead, stabbed in the back with a sinister-looking thingamabob.
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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.
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“Hootenanny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hootenanny. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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