toadstone

noun

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as in juju

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  1. juju
  2. amulet
  3. fetish
  4. mascot
  5. talisman
  6. token
Noun
  • Whatever juju, imagined or self-made, permeating throughout the Braves’ roster over the last few weeks was exorcised Wednesday.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 2 July 2026
  • Emiliano Grillo The Argentinian’s juju is probably solid because his native country is the reigning World Cup champion and has a realistic chance of going back-to-back this summer.
    — Geoff Clark OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of juju
Noun
  • Also represented are smaller artifacts, including beads, amulets, and incense burners.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 6 July 2026
  • First, the family in the West African nation of Guinea turned to a traditional healer who suggested protective amulets.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of amulet
Noun
  • Tupper’s Mick, at the mercy of his brittle fetishes, may be the most believable of this quartet.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • The screen is big, the image is sharp and bright, but Nolan’s visual compositions are dull—just pictures of actors acting, without style or poetry—and his fetish for size is just bombast and vanity.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Definition of fetish
Noun
  • Like children’s cereal mascots, their efforts are cartoonish and doomed to fail.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 July 2026
  • That indomitable will was in full display during the meditative Walk for Peace that Pannakara led earlier this year with an international group of monks and his rescue dog, Aloka, who has become a mascot for the movement.
    — Deepa Bharath, Fortune, 17 July 2026
Definition of mascot
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  • Texas was missing their talisman Eric Oncins, and his replacement Rafa Hewett did just enough to get his team to the DreamBreaker.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Spain’s talisman was Lamine Yamal, its nineteen-year-old right winger, who plays the game with bleached tips, implausible speed, and nonchalance, but its superego was Rodri, the team’s central midfielder and captain.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of talisman
Noun
  • The Gemini model APIs are now processing roughly 22 billion tokens per minute, up from over 16 billion in the prior quarter.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 23 July 2026
  • That makes the voice technology accessible to software programmers, the AI power users who consume vast amounts of AI tokens in their jobs writing computer code and who are considered one of the most lucrative segments of the AI market.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 23 July 2026
Definition of token
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“Toadstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toadstone. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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