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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white elephants
Noun
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Being chosen to participate in such a landmark season is a dream and knowing all the castaways that did not make it here is humbling.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026 -
The cafe’s opening in the 305 is pegged to the 50th season of the iconic series, in which a group of castaways in a remote location are forced to fend for themselves while the world watches.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Piles of human scraps offer a bottomless buffet to wildlife, and to access that bounty, animals need to be bold enough to rummage through human rubbish but not so bold as to become a threat to people.—
Marina Wang,
Scientific American,
14 Nov. 2025
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Helga once wrestled down a drunk fisherman in the Café, a man of above-average size, and then threw him out like a piece of rubbish; Jens thus transfers most of his weight automatically to her; who is this kid, by the way?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Xzayvier Brown made a three-pointer with 18 seconds left to give the Sooners a 33-30 halftime advantage.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 Feb. 2026
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When Anthropic fed Claude the entire novel The Great Gatsby with one line changed, the model spotted the alteration in 22 seconds.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
31 Jan. 2026
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