nine days' wonders

variants also nine day wonders
Definition of nine days' wondersnext
plural of nine days' wonder

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Noun
  • Here's everything to know about the actress's death, including what her last words were.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Kirk obviously didn’t mean for a book about the Sabbath to comprise his last words.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Lightweight and easy to flatten when empty, this packable tote from Bagsmart is a steal for $26 and features tons of pockets for stashing all of your travel essentials.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Also, didn’t Trump just pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran President, who had been sentenced to forty-five years in federal prison for conspiring to import four hundred tons of cocaine into the United States?
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • There are several other ongoing furors about the president’s propensity to use his power in unusually personal ways.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Health and fitness trends come and go, and many fads don’t deliver on their promises – remember vibrating belts or sauna suits?
    Kristen Marie Beavers, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Whether driven by indulgence, health fads or shock value, these six trends reported by Fox News Digital stood out as some of the strangest and most talked-about bites and beverages of the year.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Last spring, the owners closed their downtown location and consolidated at 310 SW Blue Parkway in the Pine Tree Plaza, mainly due to the timing of the downtown lease as well as industry trends, Boehm said.
    Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Together, these trends have turned industrial space into a cornerstone of national logistics and digital capacity.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Both choices have continuously variable automatic transmissions (CVTs) with eight-speed manual shift modes.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Both Fischer and Lutron call out lighting systems and apps that change lighting based on pre-programmed modes and even automatically transition to align with circadian cycles.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Their online parlance is punctuated by empty enthusiasms, vicious aspersions, and obvious hypocrisies that rarely matter.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Nine days' wonders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nine%20days%27%20wonders. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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