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quicks

noun

plural of quick
as in hearts
the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions that nasty comment cut me to the quick

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Recent Examples of quicks The quartet of quicks dovetail well as a unit, and their success is as a collective. — Paul Newman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The frontline quicks will be supported by veteran offspinner Nathan Lyon and allrounders Green and Beau Webster. — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 As one of the marquee burners in the talent-rich fields of Los Angeles, Ross has Power 4 quicks — Notre Dame, Washington and Auburn were among the blue-blood offers — on a mid-major frame (5-foot-10, 180 pounds). — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicks
  1. hearts
  2. guts
  3. souls
  4. bones
  5. minds
  6. insides
Noun
  • To Longwell, such statements suggest that voters don’t want politicians to force them to choose between their hearts and their fears.
    — Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Previous research in the field had used blood pressure and heart rate to infer how well hearts were functioning.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of hearts
Noun
  • In 1997, John Desler, a former Ole Miss defensive back, and his wife, Leelee, bought the guts of the place from James Purvis, proprietor of Purvis Pool Hall and the town’s most renowned bookie.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • But to me, the guts and the root of the whole thing is the writing.
    — Jewly Hight, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of guts
Noun
  • Although the story of Odysseus binding himself to the mast to resist the Sirens’ song may belong to the mythical imagination, plenty of desperate souls have gone to heroic lengths to obstruct their wayward desires.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Preachers and patricians constantly warned that, if allowed to live unchecked in the city, Jews would ‘infect’ the Christian faithful, poisoning the minds of the pious and stealing souls away from salvation.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of souls
Noun
  • In her second multitasking job on both sides of the camera, Girl Group, Wilson goes it alone as screenwriter, with no pre-existing material to supply the bones.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Former Gateway Church senior pastor Robert Morris recently suffered a medical incident that left him with a black eye and three broken bones in his face, according to the 65-year-old’s attorney.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of bones
Noun
  • Yet the deepest human transformations operate on a different layer of architecture—driven by adaptive, systemic processes that our analytical minds can’t fully dictate.
    — Patrick Murphy, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • A number of offensive minds — Johnson, Zac (and Press) Taylor, Doyle, Liam Coen, Brady, Drew Petzing and others — are making playbooks and game plans easier to digest.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of minds
Noun
  • That was maybe the allure of acting — getting to show a little bit of my insides through acting.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • She’s gutted, her insides ripped out, and hung from a tree in the yard, dripping with blood.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of insides

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“Quicks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicks. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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