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Recent Examples of loggerhead With Fletcher gone, the five-member body was often at loggerheads between its two Democrats and two Republicans, until Monica Montgomery Steppe was elected to succeed him later that year. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025 In the meantime, Ter Stegen will reportedly lose the armband previously donned by the likes of Lionel Messi and Sergio Busquets in recent times while at loggerheads with the club. Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 The streamer and theater owners, and particularly the major chains, have been at loggerheads for years over exclusive theatrical windows. Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Correspondence between the companies and the FCC, obtained by IEEE Spectrum under a Freedom of Information request, shows that the companies were not always at loggerheads. IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2019 See All Example Sentences for loggerhead
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Noun
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Soviet Sputnik 5 carried mutts Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and two rats.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Elphinstone Reef consistently ranks among the world’s best dive sites thanks to its abundance of healthy soft corals and frequent shark sightings, including the chance to see everything from thresher sharks to scalloped hammerheads.
    Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
  • We are not meant to be hammerheads in a world of nails.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Magic starred Hopkins as Corky, a magician who reaches fame alongside his ventriloquist’s dummy, the obnoxious and wisecracking Fats.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The patient is actually a training dummy that instructors can manipulate into yelling, moaning, retching, suffering blood pressure spikes, heart attacks and other medical emergencies.
    Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Loggerhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loggerhead. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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