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language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
don't give me that jazz about how you didn't know that it was illegal
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Recent Examples of jazz
Two examples would be the great jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and the terrific banjo player Allison Brown, who is a La Jolla High School alum.
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George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
He is widely known as a Grammy Award-winning jazz instrumentalist.
—Jim Asker, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
Beyond his bona fides as a broadcasting dual threat, Berry has been a frequent motivational speaker and a jazz lover who sings with his own band.
—Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2025
In the Blue Light centers the Black jazz musicians that set the foundation for Kelela’s own lyricism and music.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2025
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George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
He is widely known as a Grammy Award-winning jazz instrumentalist.
—Jim Asker, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
Beyond his bona fides as a broadcasting dual threat, Berry has been a frequent motivational speaker and a jazz lover who sings with his own band.
—Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2025
In the Blue Light centers the Black jazz musicians that set the foundation for Kelela’s own lyricism and music.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jazz
Noun
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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
Noun
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Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.—
Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Mar. 2025
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Describing the plot as utter nonsense would both be 100 percent correct and likely taken as a massive compliment for all involved.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Mar. 2025
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Putin has repeatedly dismissed as nonsense Western claims that Russia could one day attack a NATO member.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
6 Mar. 2025
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American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.—
Brandon Withrow,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
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This dumping exacts a devastating environmental toll—leaching toxic contaminants into water, air, and food, and miring whole regions in growing fields of rubbish.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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This includes brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2025
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Beausoleil makes that claim, and argues that stupidity and self-preservation is also a sound reason for the Manson murders.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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Brooks – an author of books on the human condition -- is careful to delineate stupidity from intelligence.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Whereas New York delivered practicality, London tapped into its punk roots and Milan served directional trends made for the runway, Paris offered leaned heavily on avant-garde silhouettes, textures and shadowy contrasts.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Mar. 2025
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As for her glam, Tyla added some punk sensibility with her hairstyle, featuring a choppy fringe.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
11 Mar. 2025
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Sam apologized awkwardly, trying covertly to swipe beneath her chin, checking for drool and feeling like the world’s schlubiest schlub for struggling to tear her eyes from this stranger when the love of her life had dumped her an hour earlier.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Over time, drool evolved in the 19th century as a more specific term for saliva spilling or dripping from the mouth.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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“Jazz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jazz. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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