pilgarlic

noun

Definition of pilgarlicnext
as in mockery

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  1. mockery
  2. target
  3. victim
  4. lightning rod
  5. sitting duck
  6. prey
  7. butt
  8. laughingstock
Noun
  • The Dodgers could make a mockery of the National League West by trading for Skubal, who won the last two American League Cy Young awards for the Detroit Tigers.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
  • Likewise, Johnson’s appearance in Moana has attracted widespread online criticism and ridicule with the largest wave of mockery centered on Maui’s long, curly hair.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of mockery
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  • With that said, Spanish star Rodri will have a target on his back (or, more appropriately, his ankles).
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
  • By crunching massive amounts of data in a short time, AI can help identify and strike enemy targets.
    — Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
Definition of target
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  • Brown’s wife was Bruneau’s best friend at the time of the victim’s death, and both women worked as flight attendants for Braniff Airlines, a Grapevine police detective wrote in an arrest warrant affidavit filed in June.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
  • Numerous victims have said that their names and other sensitive information were not properly redacted in the files and criticized Blanche and the department for failing to investigate Epstein’s potential co-conspirators.
    — Ben Wieder, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
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  • The World Cup was the lightning rod, said Carlos González Gutiérrez, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles.
    — Alfredo Corchado, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • Instead, the concession became a lightning rod for criticism.
    — Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of lightning rod
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  • Only the ridiculous American League could turn Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow from a sitting duck into a potential candidate for Executive of the Year in less than a week.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • In Ukraine, tanks—the backbone of 20th-century armies—have become sitting ducks for drones.
    — Nancy A. Youssef, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Definition of sitting duck
Noun
  • Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, questioned the methodology, saying researchers collected scat only along roads and trails while excluding brushy areas where wolves may eat smaller prey.
    — Scott Lebar. Story produced with AI assistance, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • Born in 1946 amid the bombing of Frankfurt, Ruppert instead developed a psychosexual cosmology that rejected neat distinctions between prey and predator.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of prey
Noun
  • Maintaining a flat back, hinge at your hips, push your butt back, and lower your torso.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 17 July 2026
  • Taco Bell has long been the butt of jokes about its menu causing intestinal concerns.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Definition of butt
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  • The fundamentalist movement became a national laughingstock.
    — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • The Knicks went from a laughingstock franchise to one of the league’s elite under Brunson’s watch.
    — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Definition of laughingstock
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