nine days' wonders

variants also nine day wonders
plural of nine days' wonder

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Noun
  • Continue reading … ‘NEVER WAVERED’ — Pence reveals Graham's last words to him in a vivid airport encounter.
    , FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026
  • Mays’ last words spoken on camera were to a local TV station, MyFox Tampa Bay, after his flight made a rough landing at Tampa International Airport.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • Federal prosecutors accuse Maduro and Flores of conspiring with drug cartels to facilitate the flow of thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • Six Boeing 767 airlifts have carried 295 tons of relief supplies into the country.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • The Story and American Buffalo are going to be hot tickets too.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 20 Feb. 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
  • Still, bond investors, who are less swayed by market fads than stock investors are, have also lost enthusiasm for the AI boom.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 July 2026
  • Brandon Chargoy, 31, has struggled with his weight most of his life, cycling through crash diets and fitness fads without much success.
    Simar Bajaj, NBC news, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • With just one full month of summer left, now’s the time to lean into the season’s boldest manicure trends before fall’s moodier color palette takes over.
    Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 19 July 2026
  • Unlike trends that involve shoving one pastry into another, salt bread’s virality is rooted in simplicity, capturing attention with little other than butter and a bit of salt.
    Candy Hom, AJC.com, 19 July 2026
Noun
  • Other modes of interaction include maritime trade, which is believed to have existed from ancient times.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
  • The FlexCam adds new hands-free shooting modes, a real-time selfie preview window, and a hands-free system with new shooting angles that produce steadier video.
    Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • Two of Zohran Mamdani’s enthusiasms — better bus service and soccer — have, in the World Cup, found their moment of zingy cross-pollination.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 4 June 2026
  • The movie thus offers a complaint about the end results of Putinism, not about the ideas—the emotions, the enthusiasms, the resentments, the hatreds—that brought it about.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
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