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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
Experience both at Stranahan’s Denver on Valentine’s Day as the distillery hosts a live jazz performance by Lapompe, a Denver group that plays a blend of gypsy jazz and classic American tunes.
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Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2025
The sounds of grunts, punches and a little soft jazz ran through the speaker system.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The author also aligns this mode of performance poetry with other Black art forms such as jazz.
—David Silverberg, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
Lynch never described himself as having formative experiences in small, curtained rooms, or identified jazz clubs as having great symbolic significance.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
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Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2025
The sounds of grunts, punches and a little soft jazz ran through the speaker system.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The author also aligns this mode of performance poetry with other Black art forms such as jazz.
—David Silverberg, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
Lynch never described himself as having formative experiences in small, curtained rooms, or identified jazz clubs as having great symbolic significance.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 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
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The plummeting property values bled Gary of tax revenue for roads, schools, street lights, firefighters, garbage pickup.—
Paige Williams,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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City government is closest to the needs of residents’ everyday lives – snow plowing, garbage pickup, street lights, road repair, public safety, sensible economic development for low property taxes.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Writing nonsense just to make word / article quotas.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Baltimore Sun owes Baltimore Ravens placekicker Justin Tucker a headline apology and let this nonsense go.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
13 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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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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View 6 Images Unlike cats, our vision is pretty rubbish in very low light conditions.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
17 Jan. 2025
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On the evening of January 14, a woman was arrested after allegedly setting multiple piles of rubbish and trash on fire, Jim McDonnell, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said at a news conference last week.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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For me that’s always been identity, men, technology, and my own stupidity.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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Betting against Mahomes in a big game fits in nicely with all the stupidity going around.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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Sink has a punk look and can also be seen in the trailer rocking out on a makeshift, DIY guitar in front of a band of masked horn players.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
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Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley offered up his sincerest apologies to the pop punk band’s Australian fans in a video posted this week after the group were unable to play what were slated to be the final-ever shows Down Under in December due to his illness.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
13 Feb. 2025
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No drool icicles hanging from his mouth and his body shook with excitement.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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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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“Jazz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jazz. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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