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Recent Examples of milquetoast
Instead, audiences got the frustratingly milquetoast sci-fi tale of Jim (Chris Pratt), an engineer who accidentally wakes up nearly a century too early during an interstellar journey to a far-off planet and becomes obsessed with a pretty writer named Aurora (Lawrence), who’s still in hibernation.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
Whereas Melvin was a milquetoast mainstay with two decades of experience as a major-league manager, Vitello arrives as a 47-year-old firebrand who neither played nor coached at any level of professional baseball.
—Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO, pointed to a surprise rebound in wages and salaries, which were up 0.6% in July after a milquetoast 0.1% in June, as evidence that consumers still have some cushion.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
An orphan who lives with his grandparents, Albie and Sarah (Mark Hamill and Mia Sara), Chuck pads through a rather milquetoast coming-of-age sketch.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
Whereas Melvin was a milquetoast mainstay with two decades of experience as a major-league manager, Vitello arrives as a 47-year-old firebrand who neither played nor coached at any level of professional baseball.
—Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO, pointed to a surprise rebound in wages and salaries, which were up 0.6% in July after a milquetoast 0.1% in June, as evidence that consumers still have some cushion.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
An orphan who lives with his grandparents, Albie and Sarah (Mark Hamill and Mia Sara), Chuck pads through a rather milquetoast coming-of-age sketch.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milquetoast
Noun
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Please do not take the coward’s way.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.—
Alex Mar,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2023
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Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2022
Noun
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At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
31 Aug. 2024
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Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?—
Jason Zinoman,
New York Times,
15 Nov. 2023
Noun
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The research, published in the journal Cell, used mouse models to explore how the biological changes associated with cancer may affect the progression of the most common dementia type.—
Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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Primer extension experiments using mouse macrophage RNA indicated a single transcriptional initiation site.—
Kirstin R.W. Matthews,
STAT,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Milquetoast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milquetoast. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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