as in cowards
a person without strength of character
those namby-pambies at city hall are never going to get serious about our crime problem
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Noun
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And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026 -
Put beaks on the helmets, you cowards.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The protagonist is a nine-year-old girl named Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), who lives with her grandmother (Waheed Thabet Khreibat), in a mudhif, a house of twisted reeds, in Iraq’s southern marshlands.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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The hippos carve the winding channels of the Delta, breaking through blockages of reeds and water lilies and opening floodgates for the rain that flows down from Angola each year.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Shawna Pandya pointed out that there have in fact been reproductive studies on a wide range of animal models, including rodents, jellyfish, quail, sea urchins, and fish.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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But the most eye-catching elements are the flocks of colored blobby shapes that appear to dart back and forth across their surfaces, like jellyfish swimming back and forth.—
Benjamin Lima,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Namby-pambies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/namby-pambies. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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