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as in comedian
a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor
you're really a card, but save the jokes for after class
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Recent Examples of card
Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2025
Demand in China for the latest generation cards is so high that Chinese resellers are already advertising the chips bought outside the country for up to $5,700 on Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
Katie Woo, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
Ko carded only six bogies the whole week, shooting below par in all four rounds.
—Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
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Noun
Dedicate a prize for the winning card to get everyone even more engaged.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2025
Demand in China for the latest generation cards is so high that Chinese resellers are already advertising the chips bought outside the country for up to $5,700 on Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
The Cardinals have carded a left-handed heavy lineup all season, and replacing one of those left-handed outfielders with a right-handed one would make for the easiest platoon fit.
—Katie Woo, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
Ko carded only six bogies the whole week, shooting below par in all four rounds.
—Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for card
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In early 2023, shortly after raising $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, Lore swapped Wonder’s 450 vans for storefronts where customers could order takeout or delivery from a giant selection of 30 unique menus.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes,
8 Feb. 2025
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These are the drinks that form the basis of the cocktail cannon; largely all created before sour mixes and disco-era drinks dominated menus around America.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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My normal life is focused on being a stand-up comedian.—
Julie Seabaugh,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2025
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Rogan has discussed the heartbreaking impacts of the fires in the past, such as in conversation with comedian Sam Morril on the JRE episode No. 2178.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is stiffing American businesses on hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for work that has already been done, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.—
Ellen Knickmeyer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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The case brought by Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James was filed after Trump pardoned Bannon of similar federal charges in a last-minute clemency blitz before last leaving office.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Lilac fire spread from the edge of nearby I-15 in a southwesterly direction and raked across the rear of a tan-colored home on the eastern side of Ranchos Ladera Road, burning up to the property’s patio.—
Paul Sisson,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Dash Day had himself quite a time, raking the trap, drawing in the sand and playing with a golf ball while his dad posed for pictures with a trophy and a surfboard — and a check for $1.13 million.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Dexter: Resurrection has booked another familiar name.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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The outing is then booked to hit Madrid, London, Burssels, Oslo and Paris before moving over to the U.S. for theater gigs in Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. before winding down on Nov. 29 at the Met in Philadelphia.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released video of officials combing through the debris and destruction left after the fatal Jan. 31 plane crash in Philadelphia, which killed at least seven people and injured 22 others.—
Andrea Margolis,
Fox News,
2 Feb. 2025
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Rescue teams were combing the Potomac River after a plane carrying 64 people and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday night.—
Rebecca Falconer,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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His latest on the subject, and the one to which Kennedy was referring, appeared in a journal that is not indexed by the National Library of Medicine or by any other organization that might provide it with some scientific credibility.—
Adam Marcus,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2025
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The site also sold access to a tool to search for stolen and leaked logins indexed from billions of websites.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Tracking what was being abruptly proposed and voted on was a two-person operation, with my colleague David Zahniser and me splitting the work of snapping photos of the motions, cataloging them in numerical order and quickly reading through them.—
Tony Barboza,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Language Barriers During the first half of the 20th century, most linguists were concerned with cataloging the world’s languages.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Card.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/card. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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