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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
Cory has also spent time learning and playing a multitude of instruments, performing on percussion in multiple ensembles, and filling in on whatever is needed for marching band, winter winds, and jazz band.
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Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum invites contemporary artists to pay tribute to the legendary jazz musician’s spirituality and sound through innovative mediums.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Dec. 2024
Other ambassadors in the cultural space include jazz musician Herbie Hancock, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, actress Rossy de Palma and Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
High-brow: Georgetown's Blues Alley jazz supper club, where pianist Monty Alexander carries on a longstanding NYE concert tradition over two shows (tickets starting at $150).
—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum invites contemporary artists to pay tribute to the legendary jazz musician’s spirituality and sound through innovative mediums.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Dec. 2024
Other ambassadors in the cultural space include jazz musician Herbie Hancock, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, actress Rossy de Palma and Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
High-brow: Georgetown's Blues Alley jazz supper club, where pianist Monty Alexander carries on a longstanding NYE concert tradition over two shows (tickets starting at $150).
—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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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 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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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 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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Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 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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Watch stupidity and laziness (my much better working title for The End of Work was The End of Laziness) rapidly disappear as technological advance erases so much of what people used to do for a living in favor of living for work.John Tamny, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Their books’ fantasies of martyrdom and religious metaphysics are a feint so as not to recognize the need for socialism at home and abroad, and to obscure American stupidity.Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
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This year, a possibly even better new recording of the song appeared on a new companion EP for the New Jersey punk band’s 2023 reunion album History Books.Al Shipley, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024
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Mayweather came off like a punk, but really wasn’t one.Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Nate Burleson to haters of NFL's promo clip featuring Taylor Swift: 'Wipe the drool off your tank top' Burleson didn't hold back while addressing the critics who decried seeing Swift in an NFL hype video.Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
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The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Jazz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jazz. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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