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Recent Examples of tongue
James later shared the ad on social media with winking and tongue-sticking-out emojis; much of his audience, however, was not so amused, and one lifelong fan even sued.
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Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
In the first photo, the blended family could be seen dressed in red and black as Kourtney stuck her tongue out and Landon and Alabama, 19, flipped off the camera.
—Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Through sharp wit and deep introspection, Wood reveals the wisdom he’s gathered—from knowing when to hold your tongue to learning how to channel anger into purpose.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
Chahl and his colleagues collected 5,260 images—both real tongue photographs found on the Internet and additional color-gradient images.
—Eve Lu, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
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Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
In the first photo, the blended family could be seen dressed in red and black as Kourtney stuck her tongue out and Landon and Alabama, 19, flipped off the camera.
—Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Through sharp wit and deep introspection, Wood reveals the wisdom he’s gathered—from knowing when to hold your tongue to learning how to channel anger into purpose.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
Chahl and his colleagues collected 5,260 images—both real tongue photographs found on the Internet and additional color-gradient images.
—Eve Lu, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue
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The series has hit the Netflix Top 10 in all 93 countries that the company measures; Season 4 was the first-ever English-language series to cross 1 billion hours streamed on the platform, and continues to be the streamer’s third-most-popular English-language TV title.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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Befitting of JJJJound’s minimalist, premium design language, each pair is light on flair, letting the Speedcat’s iconic silhouette and high-quality materials do the heavy lifting here.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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There's also critical thinking, vocabulary, and knowledge that books offer students.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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Experts at Scholastic say such books help kids gain the vocabulary to describe their feelings, improve self-awareness, and learn strategies for handling negative emotions.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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Patrick also has his own researcher, so the cast members all had access to this dropbox full of stuff, including incredible academic studies of John Gacy’s speech pattern and word choice and syntax use, and a breakdown of the Chicago dialect and his Polish background.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2025
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On Thursday evening, Welsh read from his new book Men in Love, which is written in the Edinburgh dialect.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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The history of labor struggle, infused with religious idioms, is a source of identity and values evident in everything from union meetings in churches to prayers on picket lines.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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What began as an idiom of care—protecting vulnerable students—has been used to justify a spectacle of retribution.—
Lula Konner,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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