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Noun
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All of this exploring and staying open and slow-burn nonsense left us with half the villa coupled up but stagnant — unwilling to stray but unwilling to grow — and the other half hopelessly single.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
25 June 2025 -
Despite the great Roger Ebert’s own glowing review, many of his contemporaries couldn’t all see of its greatness, with many dismissing it as nonsense or mere shock entertainment.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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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
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While kids will love the deluxe king bunk room, there are a variety of spacious accommodations for families.—
Angela Caraway-Carlton,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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Society Hotel The boutique Society Hotel is set in an old schoolhouse and has the complete traveler accommodation toolkit: bunk rooms, private rooms, and cutesy cabins.—
Zoe Baillargeon,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2025
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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
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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
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The Wizard of Oz is, and always has been, a humbug.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 Nov. 2024
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These small marine reef fish are often known by the peculiar common name, the humbug damselfish (Figure 1).—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
30 Sep. 2024
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Oremus and Papp looked at other common plastic trash—straws, water bottles and bottle caps—and found that, for these items, nothing changed.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
19 June 2025
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Kansas City trash service will also be suspended for the holiday, and service will move forward one day for the rest of the week (Thursday pickup will be on Friday, and Friday on Saturday).—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2025
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“Trivia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivia. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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