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as in coward
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as in icicle
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Recent Examples of mouse
Katherine Bourzac, Scientific American, 7 May 2025
The Fungus That Fights Liver Disease In a mouse model of liver disease — specifically, mice fed a high-fat diet to mimic human MAFLD — those treated with F. foetens showed significant improvements.
—Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Cooking Salmon With Avocado and Cilantro Salad Jan. 14, 2025
If those don’t appeal, mouse your way over to New York Times Cooking and make your own list.
—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The therapy protects mice against the venoms of 19 species of deadly snake, including the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
—Katherine Bourzac, Scientific American, 7 May 2025
The Fungus That Fights Liver Disease In a mouse model of liver disease — specifically, mice fed a high-fat diet to mimic human MAFLD — those treated with F. foetens showed significant improvements.
—Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
Verb
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
Cooking Salmon With Avocado and Cilantro Salad Jan. 14, 2025
If those don’t appeal, mouse your way over to New York Times Cooking and make your own list.
—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouse
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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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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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It was filled with flowers, candles, branches and crystal icicles to create a winter wonderland.—
Emy LaCroix,
People.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Just before midnight on April 14, 2012, the vessel sideswiped an iceberg.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
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The ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. the evening of April 14 at a speed of 20 knots and slipped below the surface at 2:20 a.m. the following morning, according to the National Museum of American History. More than 1,500 people died.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
14 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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Lottie was running a pretty milquetoast self-help retreat.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The always-bold, always-hyper Daffy is incorrigibly incompetent, while shy milquetoast Porky is too busy nursing a crush on beautiful gum-flavor scientist Petunia Pig (voiced by Candi Milo) to ever really accomplish much.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus followed suit with their own twists on the jellyfish.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
7 Feb. 2025
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The jellyfish cut also sees a drastically shorter layer, but it is cut all the way around the head, while the hime cut only has the front pieces cut.—
Hedy Phillips,
People.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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An opening montage includes a bloodied sheep ostensibly mauled by an ochi.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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Beyond the sheep and horse, the day’s finds include part of a wolverine and an American cheetah petrosal bone.—
Michael Ray Taylor,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
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“Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouse. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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