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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
Additionally, the Silver Note restaurant and bar pairs a live jazz club with a menu of small plates.
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Megan Dubois, USA Today, 14 Feb. 2026
The score alternates between traditional ceremonial sounds and some jazz pieces by saxophonist Keïta Janota and Gaspard Gomis which frame the narration.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
The renovation to the jazz museum is one of many projects ongoing in the district.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2026
The free-jazz quintet led by Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother, will release Future Present Past on March 27 via Impulse!
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
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Megan Dubois, USA Today, 14 Feb. 2026
The score alternates between traditional ceremonial sounds and some jazz pieces by saxophonist Keïta Janota and Gaspard Gomis which frame the narration.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
The renovation to the jazz museum is one of many projects ongoing in the district.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2026
The free-jazz quintet led by Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother, will release Future Present Past on March 27 via Impulse!
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jazz
Noun
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Fresh fruit and maple syrup add natural sweetness, while a small amount of nuts or seeds provides crunch and satiety without the sugar overload.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
Verywell Health,
15 Feb. 2026
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But just as there’s a difference between depicting chaos and depicting chaotically, there’s a difference between presenting theatergoers with a realistic image of mental illness and driving an audience nuts.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But the jumble of words coming out of Harper’s mouth is nonsense.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Aside from how much human assistance the AIs had, the vast bulk of the submissions appear to be a lot of very convincing nonsense.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
14 Feb. 2026
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The study also noted that many of these companies guaranteed some news outlets would cover the press releases, and were essentially flooding the space with garbage crypto information dressed up to look like reliable news.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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If certain items can't be put in your regular garbage and recycling bins, do the right thing and run it to your local garbage disposal center instead.—
Kate McKenna,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 2026
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Switch Out Your Throw Pillows Bringing some new throw pillows into the mix can take your living room from blah to beautiful, designers say.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
31 Jan. 2026
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In other words, our complexion is looking pallid, our skin is dry, and our overall appearance is just a little blah at the moment.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
2 Jan. 2026
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Piles of human scraps offer a bottomless buffet to wildlife, and to access that bounty, animals need to be bold enough to rummage through human rubbish but not so bold as to become a threat to people.—
Marina Wang,
Scientific American,
14 Nov. 2025
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Helga once wrestled down a drunk fisherman in the Café, a man of above-average size, and then threw him out like a piece of rubbish; Jens thus transfers most of his weight automatically to her; who is this kid, by the way?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Which is much worse than plain old stupidity.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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There is plenty of silliness in this year’s commercials.—
Dee-Ann Durbin,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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The silliness betrays the seriousness.—
J. Aaron Sanders,
STAT,
4 Feb. 2026
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Gone are the days when all-black ensembles were solely for punk-rockers.—
Shelby Comroe,
InStyle,
17 Feb. 2026
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And with writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s $80 million punk-rock art-house Bride of Frankenstein reimagining The Bride!—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2026
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