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as in surprise
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as in quibbler
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Recent Examples of kicker
On Saturday, Hill defended Carter after former Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes explained why publicly targeting a teammate is frowned upon inside an NFL locker room.
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Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2026
Hindsight might be a kicker that those who pulled the ripcord on a major in computer science hastily missed the boat.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
The story’s kicker is a real gut-punch.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 20 May 2026
The kicker here is that the Esiri brothers have shifted Woolf’s very British period tale to Lagos, with key sections in a contemporary setting.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 16 May 2026
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Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2026
Hindsight might be a kicker that those who pulled the ripcord on a major in computer science hastily missed the boat.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
The story’s kicker is a real gut-punch.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 20 May 2026
The kicker here is that the Esiri brothers have shifted Woolf’s very British period tale to Lagos, with key sections in a contemporary setting.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 16 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicker
Noun
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Some of these are already established, but there all but guaranteed to be surprises in store as the tournament gets underway.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
31 May 2026
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There is a sense of buoyancy in the squad, fresh off a celebratory club-wide parade and Shaw’s surprise signing announcement.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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Chile flakes add a pleasant kick.—
Deputy Food Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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Fenix no-sold a tilt-a-whirl DDT and came back with a spinning kick.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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His cine-theatre can be clever but not cutting, obsessed with the reflecting mind-numbing mania of scrolling without pushing past it to more substantial revelations.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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Meanwhile, Townsend is a revelation, and Alix Truong stood toe-to-toe with Waters for the win.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Alas, nitpickers can point to some moves in which Atlanta went backward.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Maybe that’s why, compared with some other kinds of nitpickers, pop critics can seem especially extraneous.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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But the state attorney general also carries the weight of a yearslong criminal securities fraud case and disclosure of marital infidelity.—
Bill Barrow,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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Commodity holdings introduce questions around impairment, mark-to-market treatment and disclosure.—
Anthony Milewski,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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While many people store their cooking utensils in drawers, just as many keep a crock out and within reach of the stove.—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
22 May 2026
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Keep countertops clear by forgoing a crock and hanging cooking tools using S hooks on a tension rod along the backsplash instead.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Apr. 2026
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Between a relationship scandal, a divorce bombshell and a controversial audio leak, the cast of the Bravo reality show has been mired in headlines since wrapping filming of its most recent season last August.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
25 May 2026
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Here are all the biggest bombshells from The Crash documentary.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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The most explicit objector was Vance, who has been consistently opposed to foreign adventurism, and to this Iran war in particular.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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But that decision has now been overruled after Haley and a second objector appealed it to the 16th Judicial Circuit Court.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Kicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kicker. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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