tag, rag, and bobtail

variants or tagrag and bobtail

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tag, rag, and bobtail
Noun
  • This offers the populace some measure of accountability and contributes to the expectation that officers will perform their legal duties in keeping with their own departmental policies and within the boundaries of the law.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2025
  • Imagine arriving in Florence ready to guide and instruct the populace and instead being tussled over like a toy between two toddlers!
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • The information available to the voting public focuses typically on the findings of a routine physical exam, resting electrocardiogram and standard laboratory tests.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • While Mojtaba is ideologically aligned with his father, Khomeini is viewed as a more moderate figure who could appeal to a discontented public and ease international tensions.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Oremus and Papp looked at other common plastic trash—straws, water bottles and bottle caps—and found that, for these items, nothing changed.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 June 2025
  • Take Out The Trash Since roaches will dine on food scraps, make sure to empty trash cans around the house regularly and don't let trash sit.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The men’s team has already qualified for the World Cup in 2026, meaning a third appearance at a men’s World Cup for a nation of just over five million people.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • These new episodes, though, bear fruit, in the form of progress, and forward momentum, and the impossible optimism of people changing for the better.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 June 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
Noun
  • Hayes added another 14 points plus four boards and two assists in an 87-63 rout of the Connecticut Sun on Sunday.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2025
  • The Italian side already made a fine start to the competition with a comprehensive victory over Al Ain, a 5-0 rout at Audi Field in Washington DC which was analysed in this previous column.
    Adam Digby, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Machine washable Shower curtain liners are prone to building up with soap scum and mildew if not cleaned regularly.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
  • Most people who have hard water in their homes know it because of stains and soap scum that accumulates on faucets and shower fixtures.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2025
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