variants
or vertu
as in curiosa
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Noun
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The contradictory nature of life’s ephemera—is this not the golden goose of fiction writing?—
Eric Olson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025 -
This elusiveness is all the more alluring given that twenty-second-century researchers have access to a mountain of detail—the ephemera of our digital lives, preserved in Nigerian data centers.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Native to Brazil and other South American and Central American countries, colorful peacock bass were stocked in South Florida canals in the mid-1980s by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to control the population of undesirable exotics like tilapia.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
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European exotics were also present.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Virtu.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtu. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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