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While countless users dismissed the theories as nonsense, the dog pile had begun causing the hot takes to go viral.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025 -
Bon Jovi’s team dismissed word of the tour as nonsense.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
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This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Families can also peacefully put their kids to bed in the bunk rooms upstairs before spending an evening with a film in the five-seater screening room.—
Katharine Sohn,
Architectural Digest,
15 Aug. 2025
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Seventy people in a crowded bunk room without air conditioning with outside temperatures nearing 90 degrees.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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Some of it is certainly unlistenable, but the gems outweigh the drivel.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
23 July 2025
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But who’s listening to such boring drivel, when the screen is showing a laughing, good-looking woman throwing a birthday party for her dog, complete with doggie birthday cake and balloons?—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The Wizard of Oz is, and always has been, a humbug.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 Nov. 2024
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These small marine reef fish are often known by the peculiar common name, the humbug damselfish (Figure 1).—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
30 Sep. 2024
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Help came in the form of a shy, 15-year-old named Justin Vannelli who, on the third day of her entombment, was picking up trash along the interstate.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
15 Aug. 2025
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The property was littered with garbage during visits this week, with food waste piled around trash bins rotting in the heat.—
Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Trivia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivia. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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