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as in coward
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as in icicle
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Recent Examples of mouse
Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
Researchers discovered that specific bacteria, present on both human and mouse skin, when exposed to UV light, began producing an enzyme called urocanase.
—Jay Kakade
june 03, New Atlas, 3 June 2025
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The right hemisphere critical window opens earlier in female mice, and the left hemisphere window opens just days later.
—Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
Researchers discovered that specific bacteria, present on both human and mouse skin, when exposed to UV light, began producing an enzyme called urocanase.
—Jay Kakade
june 03, New Atlas, 3 June 2025
Verb
Medical examiners determined that Arakawa's death at 65 was caused by hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a disease usually contracted from exposure to mouse droppings that affects the lungs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
What’s more, mice need only 20 days to gestate, making for a quick turnaround from embryo to mouse pup.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Floundering in his career and stressed about planning his wedding, Yvan’s woes compound when his oldest friends turn their insults on him, calling him a coward, an amoeba and a fan of motel art.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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That’s when one coward hit me from behind with a backpack.—
Brie Stimson , Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Direct fatalities Direct fatalities include deaths due to things like cold weather exposure, avalanches and icicles falling, Hurley said.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
The Tennessean,
29 Jan. 2024
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Kelly scooped at the firm snow, tiny icicles swaying from his white mustache, but couldn’t find a lair.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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Educate Employees About Their Benefits Awareness is only the tip of the benefits literacy iceberg.—
Marcy Klipfel,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Factor in the current state of the Sox, and the milquetoast and malaise of their last several seasons, and the need for a young superstar savior is sky-high.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2025
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Lottie was running a pretty milquetoast self-help retreat.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Not only does urine not help remove venom from a ray’s barb, it also should not be used to treat a jellyfish sting.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Villanueva said her inspiration for the work was her love of jellyfish.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 May 2025
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The gang also stole 18 oxen, 30 pigs, and about 200 sheep and lambs.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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While the human presence on the islands by the Chumash Indians dates back some 13,000 years, Santa Cruz provided grazing for both cattle and sheep in more recent history.—
Paul Bersebach,
Oc Register,
4 June 2025
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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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