toadstone

noun

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as in juju

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  1. juju
  2. amulet
  3. fetish
  4. mascot
  5. talisman
  6. gris-gris
  7. token
Noun
  • As Stevie Wonder’s eponymous 1972 hit suggests, there’s something specifically ominous about a 13-month-old baby that puts it in league with the bad juju of falling ladders and broken looking glasses.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of juju
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  • Since these figures have been found in excavations of homes, streets, and tombs, it is believed they were used as everyday objects, perhaps to promote fertility or used as children’s toys or household amulets.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • An international team of roughly 60 researchers from 13 countries was excavating the site when the amulet was discovered.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of amulet
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  • 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
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  • Keep an eye out for bighorn sheep and dozens of metal artworks by sculptor Ricardo Breceda scattered around town, especially the 350-foot-long sea serpent (along Borrego Springs Road), which has become a community mascot.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And Arkansas’ live mascot, Tusk VII, did not attend the season-opener due to the heat advisory.
    — Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of mascot
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  • And thankfully for Leipzig head coach Martin Demichelis, Nusa remains at the club and will be expected to become their attacking talisman in the Champions League.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Picture frames, plants, and talismans cover all available wall and table space.
    — Emma Watson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of talisman
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  • Often these assemblages of items are tied together in a bundle or bag and may be referred to as hands, mojos, or gris-gris.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of gris-gris
Noun
  • For example, OpenAI said, Astra achieved a higher score using fewer output tokens, a common unit of measurement for AI tasks, on a key cybersecurity test called ExploitGym.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026
  • In a looped Transformer, tokens are fed multiple times through a single block (which can actually consist of several different layers, but not the entire network), with the same mathematical operations being applied each time.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of token
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