trivia

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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
  • Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Many Red Sox fans have had it up to here with that building-for-the-future claptrap, so much so that expectations were scary low coming into the 2024 season.
    Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
Noun
  • The cramped cells are equipped with tiered metal bunks without mattresses, two basins for washing, and two open toilets.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Overnight guests bunk in the house’s dedicated guest suite, which features a private entrance.
    Kristine Hansen, Architectural Digest, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Supposedly inspired by an improv exercise, the scene manages to say more about man’s relationship to power than any of the drivel that spills out of Cesar Catalina’s Emersonian mind.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • With pay cable and streaming gaining a bigger and bigger foothold, Duffy kept looking for shows that deserved a wider audience while steering readers away from formulaic drivel.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Wizard of Oz is, and always has been, a humbug.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • These small marine reef fish are often known by the peculiar common name, the humbug damselfish (Figure 1).
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • There’s even been a rare dose of reality-style drama, as when contestant Shuai Wang accidentally tossed teammate Henry Lu’s entire mise en place setup in the trash — removing all the pickles from a dish in a pickle-centric challenge and sending Henry to the bottom.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 1 May 2025
  • Tens of thousands of dollars in artwork may have ended up in the trash during a town hall renovation in the Netherlands.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Trivia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivia. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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