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Recent Examples of tosh Somewhere around the two-thirds mark, escalating levels of pure tosh begin to perversely work in the movie’s favor. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024 For Virgin Orbit, its first launch attempt from the UK was a load of tosh. Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2023 This is a rare misstep for Robert Krulwich: a piece about a theory that, while seductive, is a load of tosh. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2012 The fact that all those involved in discussing this question have heads full of tosh and piffle does not make for productive debates. Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tosh
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
  • Among the debris were bricks, tins of paint, stones, and other assorted rubbish.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The effort has so far transformed more than 10 tons of flowers from would-be rubbish into fragrant souvenirs.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike a regular old garbage bag, these are leakproof and durable (and thus much harder for a squirrel to rip into, if given the chance).
    Sara Coughlin, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Four 20-pound bags of hamburger buns and sandwich breads got hit with Stop Sales, sending 80 pounds of bread into the garbage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Living Better From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism Why aim towards the ear?
    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
Noun
  • Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!
    Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The stupidity of enacting a massive tax increase on the entire global economy at this point doesn’t make much sense.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking.
    David Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The public is simply not buying it and is looking for an alternative. Enough of the twaddle about how voting Democratic is voting to save democracy.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Perhaps News Nation is trying to assume the mantle of Fox News as a dispenser of right-wing twaddle, or (to be more charitable) of CNN as a sober neutral voice.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023

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“Tosh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tosh. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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