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Recent Examples of pox
Well, is that not the flamenco dress calling the chicken-pox patient spotted?
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
The Obama-era vegetable push was a pox on the nation; now veggies are back in all their green glory.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
In 2017, a new brand, Siglo Cero, became the first commercial pox bottling to enter the U.S., says Briggs, whose firm is helping bring it across the border.
—Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
But the two that wildlife biologists are most concerned about are the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus), which spreads avian malaria, and the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which spreads avian pox.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2025
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
The Obama-era vegetable push was a pox on the nation; now veggies are back in all their green glory.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
In 2017, a new brand, Siglo Cero, became the first commercial pox bottling to enter the U.S., says Briggs, whose firm is helping bring it across the border.
—Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
But the two that wildlife biologists are most concerned about are the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus), which spreads avian malaria, and the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which spreads avian pox.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pox
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This poor dude is stuck taking over his father’s — a father who left when Frank was 2 — New Orleans restaurant when one of the employees puts a voodoo spell over him.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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The problem is that Tipping — using lots of quick cuts, booming music cues, flashing X-rays of injuries and occult-style voodoo horror tropes — fails to run up any numbers on the scoreboard.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
18 Sep. 2025
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After coming back from a 3-0 deficit in the 2004 American League Championship Series, the Red Sox not only broke their World Series curse that year, but went on to defeat the Yankees in the teams' next two postseason battles in 2018 and 2021.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Grudge Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is an American nurse living in Tokyo who is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse.—
Caitlin White,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Then came a barrage of three hurricanes — Gabrielle, Humberto and Imelda — forming in a two-week-stretch to end September, breaking an unusual quiet spell.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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Beckham, Joey Barton (Marseille) and Joe Cole (Lille) all had a season in France’s Ligue 1 in the 2010s, with the former ending his playing career at Paris Saint-Germain, after a six-season spell at LA Galaxy in MLS which was interspersed with two loans to Italy’s Milan.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Pox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pox. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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