nine days' wonder

variants also nine day wonder
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Noun
  • What are Tommy Shelby's last words?
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The stunned sibling couldn’t believe his last words to Chris would be so ordinary, yet so profound in light of what happened.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The latests forecasts show a new round of storm systems will increase rain chances across much of Northern California and the Central Valley in the coming days.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • These latests features are designed for enterprises who want to integrate their AI technology with either existing Salesforce data or even their own data.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • KitKat is asking for the public's help after thieves made off with 12 tons of the company's chocolate — prompting the launch of a new tracking tool to help locate the missing shipment.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the Civil War, transformed Northeastern cities into denser and denser wooden tinderboxes filled with tons of humans more than capable of accidentally generating sparks.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Eco effort Six Senses has long held the mantle for being ahead of the sustainability trend, and in Rome, the property was built to incorporate their ethos.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Just the same, the flip side of this is that baseball is notoriously fickle and often deceptive from one day to the next, with the line between coincidence and trend ever-blurry.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • On top of the aforementioned campaign, solo players can also enjoy customizable AI battles in a traditional Skirmish mode.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Four bounces and a roll later, Cink, who couldn’t see the pin’s bottom, went into his albatross celebration mode.
    Jay Paris, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • If the creation of fiction is a layered endeavor—if premise, plot, style, and so on are to some extent separable—then must all the layers be made by the same individual?
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The styles have polarized lenses and feature 100% UVA/UVB protection.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Senor and Stephens are neoconservatives who hardly needed to be convinced that the members of progressive movements were not friends of the Jewish people.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The No Kings movement hasn't depended on the Democratic Party to organize its protests; it's built its own infrastructure using social media and digital resources.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • An Alcaraz-Fonseca showdown would be a hot ticket.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That hot ticket item, unfortunately, has sold out, but plans are in the work for future screenings.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Nine days' wonder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nine%20days%27%20wonder. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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