tag, rag, and bobtail

variants or tagrag and bobtail

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Noun
  • Some people seem to assume that AI is far beyond our world, and not just computers, data, and algorithms -- see my analysis of how low AI-literacy impacts the populace, at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 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
  • With a new, sobering jobs report out Friday, some current employees at the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are seeking to reassure the American public that the government's economic data is reliable and worthy of their trust.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Musk and the president had a public falling out earlier this summer.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By contrast, Jeffrey goes out of his way to help the employees, breaking into Mitch’s computer to change their timesheets and stealing a trash bag full of goodies to donate to the toy drive at Leigh’s church.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The polyolefins Marks is referring to are what trash bags, plastic wrap, squeeze bottles, and other disposable single-use packaging are made of.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Sep. 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
  • German bonds, which benefited from a flight to safety earlier in the year , joined the rout, with the 30-year bund yield notching a 14-year high.
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Senior running back Carter Grabowski returns the opening kickoff 94 yards for a TD, then runs nine times for 100 yards and TDs of 45, 1 and 20 yards in Kaneland’s 44-7 rout of Rock Island in a game interrupted for an hour by a lightning delay.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, food particles, grease, soap scum, and even mineral buildup can collect inside your machine, affecting its performance and leaving your dishes less than spotless.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Disneyland has dropped reservation requirements for the once wildly popular Oga’s Cantina six years after the wretched hive of scum and villainy opened to hourslong standby lines that forced the Anaheim theme park to hastily install a reservation system.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
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