tag, rag, and bobtail

variants or tagrag and bobtail

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tag, rag, and bobtail
Noun
  • As 39% of the United Kingdom populace struggles to heat their homes, Edelstyn and Powell huddle under blankets themselves, trying vainly to warm up with endless mugs of tea.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Each district sends two children as tributes to the fight-to-the-death Hunger Games, concocted by the capitol to keep the populace distracted.
    Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The pair took their relationship public in September 2024, a year-and-a-half after Boss’ death.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Proxy advisory firms have long held sway over Wall Street, but their recommendations are even more prominent today, when almost two thirds of the American public has a stake in the stock market .
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the middle of his struggle, according to several people who were seated courtside, a fan started talking some serious trash.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • While disposals, drains, trash bins, and dishwashers are some of the most likely culprits, your walls and other surfaces could be a source of lingering odors, too.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hundreds of companies are a disorganized rabble.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Steve heads up a reform school for volatile, cursing and rabble-rousing English boys, and his mental health is tested when a documentary crew shows up and word gets out the school is closing.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brooks honored Dolphins linebacker Jordyn Brooks was honored as the AFC’s Defensive Player of the Week after producing 10 tackles (including three for loss) and a sack in the rout of Atlanta.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Nate Adkins injured his knee in the fourth quarter of the Dallas rout.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Removing Stains From Bathroom Floors Grout is porous and absorbs all the moisture, dirt, and soap scum it's exposed to, and that can leave it looking dark and dingy.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Its unique formula can remove stains, dissolve adhesives, and cut through soap scum and grease.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2025
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