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Recent Examples of mack daddy
The mack daddy of Mac compatibility USB-C Does the MacTigr work with Windows?
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Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
But there is evil afoot in Jellicleville: The scheming mack daddy known as Macavity (an outrageously seductive Idris Elba) is trying to sabotage the event by cat-napping Jellicles and transporting them to a barge on the Thames.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022
But there is evil afoot in Jellicleville: The scheming mack daddy known as Macavity (an outrageously seductive Idris Elba) is trying to sabotage the event by cat-napping Jellicles and transporting them to a barge on the Thames.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mack daddy
Noun
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Of the girls in that cohort, many were sold to brothels in Asia; others were shipped to pimps in Europe or married off to pedophiles abroad.—
Natalia Paradies,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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Set after the attacks of October 7, Y (played with slapstick elasticity by poet and playwright Ariel Bronz) pimps himself out for wild, debaucherous parties while the world burns.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Most of the fancy men on the field are not allowed to use their hands, a very important and capable body part.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
14 July 2025
Noun
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In the late 1990s, Farzam was a police cadet at the Santa Barbara Police Department.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
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Adams’ car pulls up to the NYPD Academy in Flushing, Queens, where this year’s class of more than 1,000 cadets has assembled in a massive auditorium.—
Molly Ball,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Federal procurers could take a lesson from the finance corporation JPMorgan Chase, which recently issued an open letter to its software suppliers setting clear expectations that their products should prioritize security over rushing features to market.—
JEN EASTERLY,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Oct. 2025
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Ties reached their lowest ebb in January 2010 after the Israeli security service Mossad dispatched a 27-strong death squad to Dubai to assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior weapons procurer for Hamas.—
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Mack daddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mack%20daddy. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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