as in mockery
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Nancy recalls one female character in an Iannucci movie suffering bleeding teeth, a source of mockery for other characters.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025 -
And many people in the Justice Department, as well as legal scholars, called the pardons an unprecedented and dangerous use of the executive power that makes a mockery of years of work by FBI agents, prosecutors and federal judges, some of whom the president appointed.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
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His primary target is Vincent, a former criminal whose son Rocco (Lewis Pullman) murdered Leftie’s son Jonathan.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
29 Jan. 2025
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This site was one of countless weapons of harassment used by the federal government to make life impossible for its targets from J6.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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One of my personal concerns is the tendency, particularly in Germany, to focus too much in films on the perpetrators, not the victims, like in Downfall or the recent Wannsee Conference adaptation.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Several other fire victims are likely in the same situation.—
Liam Dillon,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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The practice, which Mueller acknowledged became more prevalent in the past five to 10 years, has become a lightning rod for department critics.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Statues on college campuses have long been lightning rods for the issues and debates coursing through society.—
Mary Logan Bikoff,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The alternative: Residents risk being sitting ducks for future blazes. Consider Pacific Palisades.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Which had those seals, as Oats put it, out there in the open like sitting ducks.—
CJ Moore,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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These features, whether natural or man-made, provide critical foraging opportunities by increasing prey availability in the surrounding waters.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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On rare occasions, a very hungry bear may attack a human as prey.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Doing so causes an attached strap to pull the seat taut between them, ready to receive your butt.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
20 Jan. 2025
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But, now, the team is in on the joke, no longer the butt of it.—
David Aldridge,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
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Now the Lions are Super Bowl front-runners and have ditched their reputation as a losing laughingstock.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2025
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So why not continue the franchise’s quest to be the primary laughingstock of the NFL?—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Pilgarlic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilgarlic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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