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language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
don't give me that jazz about how you didn't know that it was illegal
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Recent Examples of jazz
Morton is also involved in efforts to save the home of Buddy Bolden, a seminal jazz musician with no recorded music.
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025
During the 1920s, as jazz and blues dominated mainstream entertainment and echoed through every speakeasy from 110th Street to 155th in New York, a small group of women began embracing masculine attire—not just on stage, but in their everyday lives.
—Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
The Eugene Symphony, in Oregon, got two termination notices, one for a grant to support a concert and residency by the jazz pianist Darrell Grant, and one to support work by the pianist Dan Tepfer.
—Michael Paulson, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The group boasts a multiethnic sound blending Mexican, Afro-Cuban, rock and jazz influences.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025
During the 1920s, as jazz and blues dominated mainstream entertainment and echoed through every speakeasy from 110th Street to 155th in New York, a small group of women began embracing masculine attire—not just on stage, but in their everyday lives.
—Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
The Eugene Symphony, in Oregon, got two termination notices, one for a grant to support a concert and residency by the jazz pianist Darrell Grant, and one to support work by the pianist Dan Tepfer.
—Michael Paulson, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The group boasts a multiethnic sound blending Mexican, Afro-Cuban, rock and jazz influences.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jazz
Noun
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Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Any actor that’s been working for over three decades has a giant garbage bag filled of pilots.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
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Bears are generally solitary, shy animals but are food-driven and often find easy meals in garbage bins.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2025
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Everyone will be there — except Lydia, who Joseph dispatches on a nonsense errand to D.C.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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The sequel has more glamour, more trouble and maybe a bit too much nonsense 1 Comments The first Simple Favor, from 2018, was a playful, shallow mystery most notable for casting the lovely, languid Blake Lively as a cynical, devious clothes horse named Emily Nelson.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Living Better From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism Why aim towards the ear?—
Andrea Muraskin,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
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American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.—
Brandon Withrow,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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This never got past the drawing board stage, but the idea kept cropping up again and again with many variations on a circular shape and performance that spanned from interesting to rubbish.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2025
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Tiny terror is unleashed in this mini alien apocalypse as directors Robert Bisi and Andy Lyon pay loving tribute to classic sci-fi stories of alien invasion and human stupidity using tilt-shift techniques that make the end of the world look almost cute.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2025
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Wodehouse had displayed nothing worse than the stupidity of the innocent.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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Bit Brigade Park City Music Hall, 2926 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport Bit Brigade does unique performances where the band speeds through live punk arrangements of video game soundtrack music while professional gamers play those speedrun-style games onstage.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
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Related Articles For the occasion, Cox honored Johnson with her own take on punk chic styling with feminine touches.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
7 May 2025
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2024
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“Jazz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jazz. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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