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Adjective
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That is a slang way of saying royally p***ed off.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
3 June 2026 -
In retail, a booster is slang for a professional shoplifter, one who doesn’t steal for personal use but in bulk for resale.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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The notes were vintage O’Keeffe—brief, vivid, enlightening, and, yes, often ungrammatical, but brilliantly so.—
Calvin Tomkins,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Stolen bases, once treated as a reckless relic of the uneducated past, are at levels not seen since the freewheeling 1980s.—
Chad Jennings,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The animals help Tim, who proves uneducated in the methods of deduction, investigate a series of local suspects portrayed by Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Kobna Holbrook-Smith, Nicholas Galitzine, Tosin Cole and Conleth Hill, among others.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Detainees held at the facility didn’t receive comprehensive health assessments, which meant that those with chronic conditions received substandard care, the report said.—
Michael Biesecker,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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Missing evidence and other problems Detainees held at the facility didn’t receive comprehensive health assessments, which meant that those with chronic conditions received substandard care, the report said.—
Michael Biesecker,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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