nine days' wonder

variants also nine day wonder

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nine days' wonder
Noun
  • Smith, 75 and sentenced to die for a triple murder in Nashville in 1989, spoke his last words from a gurney inside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville at 10:32 a.m.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 22 May 2025
  • Your last words are so powerful, and they’re also cut off, which is unique and leaves interpretation for the audience.
    William Earl, Variety, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • The latests deaths included three residents of long-term care facilities in Dallas, as well as a Balch Springs man in his 20s and a Dallas man in his 60s.
    Dana Branham, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • That equates to more than 45 million Americans using CBD products, based on latest available U.S. Census estimates.
    Brendan Bures, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
Noun
  • While there wasn’t a ton of movement from the Blackhawks this offseason, the youngins on this roster make the team unpredictable going into the fall.
    Kaitlyn Pohly, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
  • Following a first season of twists and turns (and a ton of points allowed), Canales and his crew are hoping to see improved returns from Ejiro Evero’s defense in 2025.
    Mike Kaye July 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Even Major League Baseball hopped on the trend at Citizens Bank Park, where the Philadelphia Phillies' mascot, Phillie Phanatic, recreated the moment with a feminine version of the mascot.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 22 July 2025
  • The cycle can become so accidentally ubiquitous that the former kids who blissfully existed outside of whatever discourses these trends or bands started in their heyday wonder now, as adults, what was so bad about them in the first place.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • This helps explain why many people in fawn mode lose touch with their own needs and feelings.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • At least a tease, with 22 points, mostly in attack mode.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • What was once considered a style no-no in cold weather has now become a bold statement.
    René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 13 July 2025
  • As with any popular interior design style from this time, some people took the look a bit too far, and spaces started to look a little too docile and frilly.
    Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Revelations about President Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and demands that the Justice Department release further documentation about the Epstein case, have sent shockwaves through the MAGA movement.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • The movement forced Viktor Yanukovych, a notoriously corrupt former president aligned with the Kremlin, to flee the country in 2014.
    Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • The vinyls are hot ticket items with some eBay listings pricing north of $1,100.
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Sure enough, the Super Six group-stage match between Pakistan and India proved a hot ticket.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 22 June 2025
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“Nine days' wonder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nine%20days%27%20wonder. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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