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Recent Examples of humdinger Rosenblatt gives her a humdinger of a first act closing speech complete with the kind of curtain line actors kill for. David Benedict, Variety, 7 May 2025 The Pope Trump image was followed by a couple other humdingers over the weekend, including a new plan to reopen Alcatraz (?). Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025 Though my band, Guster, has more than 2,000 performances behind us, this one is a real humdinger. Ryan Miller, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025 Liverpool’s prize for topping the league-phase table is a humdinger of a showdown with French giants Paris Saint-Germain. James McNicholas, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for humdinger
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Noun
  • Though her identity is not at first known to Benedict, the woman turns out to be Sophie Baek, a secretive maid with big dreams.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • With each brick laid at The Site, The Toy will document dad’s decades-long dream.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Finding one last meditation on the beauty of Majorca, head to Palma’s western outskirts by car to visit the Fundació Miró Mallorca, a museum on the property where the 20th-century Spanish painter Joan Miró lived and worked during the final years of his life.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • These are the words lead hairstylist Jawara Wauchope used to describe the beauty at this year’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show.
    Essence, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The crowd will be amped, and the game itself is expected to be a doozy.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The first Friday of October 2025 is a doozy for new music releases — and that’s largely thanks to Taylor Swift.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second number of the show was, if not as much of a surprise, equally a corker… and a thematically appropriate choice for the followup choice in the set.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Based on a script by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon, Ransom is a corker of a paranoid, father’s-worst-nightmare thriller in which Gibson plays Tom, a one-percenter who discovers that his son has been kidnapped.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But there are many misconceptions that persist about these metabolic marvels.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Above, she and her husband marvel at the celebratory decor at the end of the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention on July 28, 2016.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Having players in their usual roles could do wonders for a rush defense and pass rush that have been inconsistent throughout Oliver’s injury.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Still, having a quality linebacker like Overshown would do wonders for the defense.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That phenomenon, called microbetting, forever changed gambling by turbo-boosting the speed of betting behaviors.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The movie was a massive success, winning Best Picture at the Oscars and going on to become a cultural phenomenon.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Made in Italy, the beauts are marked by incredible attention to detail and top craftsmanship, because every part of your body deserves to be treated with something this chic — earlobes included.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Literally anyone who can ride a bike can hoist a beaut by pressing a little button by your throttle and ride it out until the wheels fall off or the battery dies.
    Joe Salas August 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Humdinger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humdinger. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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