1
as in fossil
a person with old-fashioned ideas
youngsters helping old dodos learn to use computers
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2
as in idiot
a stupid person
she called him a dodo after he lost the concert tickets
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Recent Examples of dodo
Since then, the private company, valued at about $10 billion, according to Bloomberg, has expanded its plans to include the de-extinction of the Australian thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) and the dodo.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
One criminal marketplace, however, has remained as dead as a dodo for the last nine years, with no activity of any sort observed by dark web threat intelligence analysts.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
In fact, on that album, Guyton often relies on the rarest dodo on all of Music Row: an all-women writers’ room.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
In addition to bringing back the dire wolf, other Colossal projects focus on bringing back the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo, all of which have been extinct for hundreds to thousands of years.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
One criminal marketplace, however, has remained as dead as a dodo for the last nine years, with no activity of any sort observed by dark web threat intelligence analysts.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
In fact, on that album, Guyton often relies on the rarest dodo on all of Music Row: an all-women writers’ room.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
In addition to bringing back the dire wolf, other Colossal projects focus on bringing back the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo, all of which have been extinct for hundreds to thousands of years.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dodo
Noun
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Augustana’s campus is home to the The Fryxell Geology Museum, which features fossils, rocks and other mineral specimens.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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The exhibit will feature fossils from the museum’s collection that show how ancient sea creatures once thrived where today’s prairies and towns stand, the release said.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
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To conservatives that believe DEI policies are racist, avoiding enforcement is the modern day literacy test.—
Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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While many social media users said the new logo erased the brand's old country feel, some conservatives suggested that the rebrand was rooted in politics.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
Drew Broussard
May 22,
Literary Hub,
22 May 2025
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
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However, the seven-year veteran has put enough on tape.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Dumars got to work quickly, swinging for the fences with trades to bring in veteran guard Jordan Poole and to draft two players out of the lottery, Oklahoma guard Jeremiah Fears with the No. 7 selection and Maryland center Derik Queen with the No. 13 pick.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Aug. 2025
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But the Trump administration’s announcement of an 8.9 percent equity stake in chipmaker Intel is a reminder that government mostly picks losers.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Losers Legacy firms struggling to adapt: In the losers camp, meanwhile, Ives names design software firm Adobe and chipmaker Intel as some of the stocks to avoid.—
Ryan Browne,
CNBC,
22 Aug. 2025
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These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.—
Alison Snyder,
Axios,
23 Feb. 2025
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And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2023
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So Bull does what any sensible, testicle-loving mutt would do.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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The phrase has become shorthand for a kind of national inferiority syndrome—a sense that Brazil, despite its grand ambitions and global flair, thinks of itself as a mutt trying to hang with pedigrees.—
Shannon Sims,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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“Dodo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodo. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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