loons

plural of loon
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of loons Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 There's waterfalls coming down the mountains, bears running around and ducks and loons flying around and swimming. Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2024 Many loons have dove down and reemerged since our last time fishing together. Emily Brisse, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loons
Noun
  • Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Too many people are acting like idiots or calling for violence.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But there's always a chance that some idiots somewhere will get hold of this information a few months from now and start making noise about it.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • If the Phillies are willing to eat part of the remaining $20 million that Castellanos is owed, the Dodgers would be fools not to swoop into the sweepstakes.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Writers are indeed fools grateful for the gift of creativity despite the constant doubt.
    Beverly Gologorsky September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To learn more about what the matador bugs are doing, a team from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) exposed the bugs to two different types of arthropods–praying mantids and katydids.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In the deterministic world, bugs were always bugs.
    Richie Etwaru, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Loons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loons. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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