loons

plural of loon
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of loons In addition to loons and lakes, Minnesota is also home to a one-of-a-kind competition that for this week, has pitted Classic SPAM against a personal aircraft. Mars King, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025 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
  • So that episode will make fun [of] billionaire life-extension body-hacking lunatics.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • To be funny while playing a character who’s sweet and endearing (even when calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and Bad Bunny has it.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For a bunch of idiots, this did not work out too badly.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Haunted Trail takes visitors outdoors through a path with dense fog and several haunting installations with zombies, a ghoul bus, a graveyard filled with ghosts, chainsaw maniacs and more.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Recent years have seen thousands of Palestinian properties illegally seized, but the Khalidis would not be taken for fools.
    Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Remove glass globes that are full of dirt and bugs to rinse off in the sink.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • These flaws are not just bugs, but opportunities for hackers to exploit millions of users before fixes roll out.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Loons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loons. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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