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Recent Examples of taradiddle Some are esoteric but still used—like taradiddle, which the list notes was recently used by J.K. Rowling but saw more play in the work of Gilbert and Sullivan, Honoré de Balzac and G.K. Chesterton. Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for taradiddle
Noun
  • In some contexts, [Lay] is the past tense of lie, as in recline.
    Sam Corbin, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Perhaps that’s what makes my lies defective and disjointed.
    Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Faced with a phrase that has no inherent meaning, the AI Overview still makes a good-faith effort to answer the user's request and draw some plausible explanation out of troll-worthy nonsense.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • None of this ‘support the teams from your country in Europe’ nonsense.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the most sobering cautionary tale comes from 1894, when a lighthouse keeper’s pet cat named Tibbles was introduced to Stephens Island in New Zealand.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Comments On Swift Horses is rife with drama — a tale of a love triangle between a young woman, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), her Korean War veteran husband Lee (Will Poulter), and his iconoclastic brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
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    Jessica Vadillo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Then, after young mothers and children who had just arrived shared their stories, the Holy Father returned to the sister who had been mentioned before.
    Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In this story: hair, Virginie Moreira; makeup, Ammy Drammeh; grooming, Yuko Fredriksson; braiding, Lorraine Dublin, Angela Torio Rivera; manicurist, Adam Slee; tailor, Judith Grant.
    Malick Bodian, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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    Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
  • American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.
    Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Taradiddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taradiddle. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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