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Recent Examples of twaddle 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 On the other end are people like Yann LeCun, who reject such scenarios as sci-fi twaddle. Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2023 Brett calls Hal to trade pretentious literary references, chit-chat about the business of books and other time-sucking twaddle. oregonlive, 16 May 2023 This is all abject twaddle. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023 No, not the usual twaddle about manipulative crowd-pleasers like cats, dogs, ferrets or budgies, which are programmed to be cute, but stories like the recent one in the Journal about goats that are helping to fight fires in rural Australia by gobbling up potential tinder. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 Before long, Limbaugh had attracted an audience of 20 million a day by spewing wildly racist, xenophobic and sexist bile and wildly untrue twaddle about everything from climate to tobacco to the number of murders committed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Al Franken, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020 Much of the research and the dissemination of this twaddle is funded by the Gates Foundation, which last year spent $642 million for its U.S. program, including Pathways and other initiatives that focus on eliminating white supremacy from math. Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 16 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twaddle
Noun
  • The current president, unfortunately, is dedicated to talking nonsense, to interfering in U.S. policy.
    Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
  • So few had any real faith in fallout shelter delusions or duck and cover nonsense.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Generic garbage with weird phrases and a robotic structure.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • And composting leaves means less going to the garbage dump.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Johnson: There’s so much rubbish talked about this.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Collins was mortified; the conga player was rubbish.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • For constipation, drink fluids and gradually increase fiber intake from sources like bran, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds to promote regular bowel movements.
    Patricia Weiser, PharmD, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Small packages like candy and nuts often slide around and clutter your space.
    Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • That may not be a huge sum of money in a county with an annual operating budget of nearly $5 billion, but it’s got to rank high in sheer stupidity or at least neglect.
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
  • But in Judge’s intentionally crass lament (which somehow becomes more prescient and troublesome by the day), our rampant national boorishness and stupidity was sort of the point.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.
    Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
  • For all their blah stretches from the past six weeks and all the questions around their pitching, the Orioles went into Thursday tied with the Yankees for the best record in the American League and a hair behind the Phillies for the best record in baseball.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Nate Burleson to haters of NFL's promo clip featuring Taylor Swift: 'Wipe the drool off your tank top' Burleson didn't hold back while addressing the critics who decried seeing Swift in an NFL hype video.
    Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024

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“Twaddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twaddle. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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