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Recent Examples of tongue
Some bars are dry on the tongue, others are unctuous.
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
The plane drops toward a short tongue of tarmac.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
The result is a song that rolls effortlessly off the tongue — catchy, fun and perfectly aligned with its party-first spirit.
—David Penn, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2026
Last year's viewers got a chance to see Matthew McConaughey, Charli xcx and Martha Stewart appear in a series of ads for Uber Eats, Shania Twain play a singing tongue for Coffee-Mate and even Vin Diesel indulge in the slow lane for Häagen-Dazs.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
The plane drops toward a short tongue of tarmac.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
The result is a song that rolls effortlessly off the tongue — catchy, fun and perfectly aligned with its party-first spirit.
—David Penn, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2026
Last year's viewers got a chance to see Matthew McConaughey, Charli xcx and Martha Stewart appear in a series of ads for Uber Eats, Shania Twain play a singing tongue for Coffee-Mate and even Vin Diesel indulge in the slow lane for Häagen-Dazs.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue
Noun
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Each class is a one- hour adventure of hearing and speaking another language.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Its sequel Dhurandhar 2 is scheduled for theatrical release March 19, 2026, in five languages — Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam — expanding significantly beyond the original's Hindi-only strategy.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Executives arrive with a vocabulary of risk, resilience, and stakeholder responsibility that can sound consistent year to year.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Learn a vocabulary, a manner, a worldview.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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The event also featured a video about the three countries and fundraising for Sudan, poetry readings, a Kahoot game about the three dialects and prizes, henna and face painting, Syrian dance, a Sudanese wedding reenactment, a fashion show and ethnic food.—
Janice Neumann,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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Domaine des Etangs officially resides in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, though locals still call it Limousin (of the eponymous dialect, and Limousin cattle).—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Created in 1947, the Doomsday Clock was created to convey threats to humanity and the Earth using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero).—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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There’s this Douglas Adams joke that in no language is there the idiom as pretty as an airport.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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