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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schmoes
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Her lab has found even modest additions to the diet — a handful of nuts or an avocado — can enrich certain beneficial bacteria over the course of a few weeks.
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Including foods like avocado, olive oil, nuts, or seeds can make your meal more satisfying and may also stimulate digestion.
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No one is suggesting these idiots are more than a small minority of the golf fans who did show up at Bethpage Black, and then at Shinnecock Hills.
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Kids, let’s face it, are idiots by nature, and that’s not their fault.
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The first time, Julian’s children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) seemed like miserable, greedy wretches.
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There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.
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Woke scolds and anti-woke dolts alike objected to the image of Carpenter kneeling in front of a man who appears to be using her hair as a leash.
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The show focuses on roughnecks and billionaires in West Texas who are trying to get rich as the oil industry continues to take over the state.
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But this is a look at the more dynamic version, like the roughnecks out in the patch and the offices in Dallas and Fort Worth.
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Together, the band brings to life a mythic world of ancient heroes and villains, attracting an excited audience of headbangers and fantasy fanatics, many of whom show up in costume.
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Animation fans were in for a very tasty treat, as the episode introduced villains and set the tone for the brutal show adapted from the best-selling Vertigo series by the late Anthony Bourdain, co-created with Joel Rose.
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New Orleans has long been notorious for embracing such scoundrels, a reputation that isn’t exactly helped by the fact that, for many years, disgraced attorneys who lost their licenses in Louisiana and applied for readmission to the bar often got it.
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Political leaders who encourage or tolerate such scoundrels should be driven from office.
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