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Recent Examples of turkey Good luck getting your niece to eat a turkey if the movie includes a rafter of them. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 May 2025 No fewer than 532 cars were trashed to achieve this turkey of a film's 35% freshness rating on the Tomatometer. Joe Salas june 07, New Atlas, 7 June 2025 The smell of cinnamon repulsed her, as did the sight of falling leaves, cornucopias, turkeys, cobwebs, ghosts, and that stupid cursive that had become the font of choice for selling pumpkin lattes and a vague notion of cozy well-being. Anelise Chen june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025 The meals included beef, pork and turkey that were slow cooked for 13 hours in a deep pit barbecue. Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for turkey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turkey
Noun
  • Our friends came over to hang out and the goose attacked.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • The goose wore a harness and leash with a small purple bow tie on the front.
    Molly Gibbs, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • As someone takes on roles that have elements of power associated with it, that can be a recipe for disaster.
    Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Lighting effects, which demonstrate how self-driving vehicles avoid disaster, may give vibes from Magic Kingdom’s Tron Lightcycle / Run coaster.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • President Trump has repeatedly called Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell stupid, terrible, a fool, and referred to him as a person of average mentality.
    Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • That fool’s from my family’s hometown over there in Mexico.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Both sets of parents would have surely been willing to help with rent and whatever else was needed for the baby’s well-being, but the couple agreed that asking them for money at this age constituted a failure too great to stomach.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
  • Officials said that the situation at Harvard represents not simply a failure to address specific incidents, but a structural climate that has allowed antisemitism to persist, prompting government intervention to uphold civil rights standards.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • At least his brand of evil maniac is kind of funny and endearing.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • The fact that death itself is the protagonist, rather than some mask-wearing homicidal maniac, is what gives these films their morbid allure.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Each year, fire safety officials warn of the dangers of fireworks and stage demonstrations of dummies that catch fire and watermelons that explode.
    Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 July 2017
  • Zuby said the Tesla Model S didn’t have a strong enough safety belt, and a dummy used to simulate a driver in the small overlap test moved too far forward during the crash, striking its head on the steering wheel.
    Diana Kruzman, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
Noun
  • Rafaela’s bomb prevented the game from getting uncomfortably close when Jordan Hicks couldn’t pitch a clean bottom of the ninth.
    Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2025
  • Iranians certainly do after Trump sent bunker-buster bombs into their most secure nuclear facility.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 4 July 2025

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“Turkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turkey. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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