as in garbage
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
that whole thing about how surprised she was to win the award was a crock
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Recent Examples of crock
Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2024
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Add ingredients to slow cooker: Stir together all the ingredients (but not the toppings) in a slow-cooker crock.
—Mary Claire Britton, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2024
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Noun
Then toss the crocks and lid in the dishwasher for easy clean up.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2024
Here are the highlights, and the full recipe is further below:
Add ingredients to slow cooker: Stir together all the ingredients (but not the toppings) in a slow-cooker crock.
—Mary Claire Britton, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2024
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The best response is to stand together and rally around New Orleans, showing all such extremists that their vision of the world is garbage.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
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Clean Cult All Purpose Cleaner Lemon Verbena (Set of 3) $15 Amazon Papaya Reusable Paper Towels Bundle (Set of 6) $54 $46 Amazon Get a combination recycling bin–trash can Keep recycling and garbage separate without the pain of multiple bins with a combination recycling bin–trash can.Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
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Some big studios completely changed their films very close to the finish line, which sometimes can mess things up.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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The most successful, or at least fascinating, of these movies tends to mess in one way or another with his seemingly carefree relationship to notions of authenticity or identity.Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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That ain't the show, the show is the nonsense that's happening in between John Wick.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
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The top team in the league is an easy decision, but after a wild week in the NFL, teams are jumbled.Fox News Staff, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Details sometimes get jumbled, but no one complains.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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In the city center and suburbs of Maputo, mountains of rubbish were piling up.Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Not this current rubbish that has been served up and charged at Michelin star rates.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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While picking a photographer, my feed led me to thousands of options that muddled my mind.Shradha Shahani, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2025
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In the outskirts of Syria’s capital Tuesday, the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator was muddled with the emerging horrors of the Assad regime.Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Crock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crock. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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