as in materialists
a person who is chiefly interested in material comfort and is hostile or indifferent to art and culture
the town's philistines who think that spending on the arts is a waste of taxpayers' money
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Noun
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Bunch of virtue signaling clowns!—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026 -
The tumbles and trust falls might start to scare you, but this is hardly these clowns’ first rodeo.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 June 2026
Noun
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Companies are reliant on the university to startup pipeline, and investors and venture capitalists follow university research clusters.—
Kelly Fleming,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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That is a point that leading technology executives and venture capitalists drove home in a wide-ranging discussion at this year’s Fortune Brainstorm Tech summit in Aspen, Colorado.—
Sebastian Herrera,
Fortune,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Using too much will attract rats, mice, roaches, and other pests.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
7 June 2026
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According to local media outlet, KARK, the snakes are nonvenomous black rat snakes, which feed primarily on pests like rats and mice.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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“Philistines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/philistines. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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