ragtag and bobtail

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Noun
  • And earlier this month, President Donald Trump — despite a public and vitriolic falling out with Musk in June — issued an executive order that appears designed to scale back roadblocks and regulatory oversight for private-sector rocket operations, including environmental reviews.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025
  • So general public still cannot access the low-cost of sodium-ion batteries at this moment.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The semblance of fluency while dialoging and engaging in conversations took the populace by storm.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • If Democratic messaging caters to the populace more concerned with the first objective than the latter, Hernaiz suspects their appeal will continue to wane.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • As is the case with the aesthetics of people, exquisite lines can be found on patrician and proletariat cars alike.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There was little-to-no doubt Jurgen Klopp’s side were going to defeat Ralf Rangnick’s under-interim-management rabble that day.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Ragtag and bobtail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ragtag%20and%20bobtail. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.

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