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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white elephant
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Every cold open featuring Harris and her cohort just rehashed each week’s news cycle, with throwaways to Johnson’s Trump and Bowen Yang as J.D. Vance featuring the two often just reciting actual statements made along the campaign trail, as if the lunacy of it all couldn’t be made more ridiculous.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2025 -
Leitch produced the film, which was a passable Netflix throwaway hampered by dopey B-movie conventions.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
8 Feb. 2025
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Finished a close second on debut with the winner of that race returning to win an Allowance race and then a distant 4th in the Risen Star Stakes.—
Jay Ginsbach,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Each chef has just 30 seconds to select a single ingredient.—
Buddha Lo,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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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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The El Gigante rock shelter itself is more than 120 feet wide and 55 feet deep, and contains trash piles left by its former residents that span the last 11,000 years.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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In the footage, the individual pulls up to the secluded dumpster in their car and quickly dumps the cat on top of the overflowing trash receptacle.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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Democrats strongly oppose Musk's work with his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has slashed federal spending and cut staff under its mission to tackle waste and fraud.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Oz's priorities for Medicare and Medicaid Oz outlined a vision for the agency focused in large part on modernizing its systems and tools, addressing waste and fraud and incentivizing Americans to make healthier lifestyle choices.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Like the customers in that Maryland pizza parlor, the public has grafted their own experiences, biases, and political views onto the scraps of Mangione’s background that have been reported so far.—
Lorena O'Neil,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
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The band, which hails from the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso borderlands, plays a brand of music that takes scraps of genres like cumbia sonidera, funk and pop to create something wholly unique.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2025
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