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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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The small rodent attempted to move up the metal pole for a few seconds before slipping slightly and returning to the floor of the subway car, the clip shows.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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Bob and Brad Slipping the unit on (and remembering to remove eyeglasses and contacts beforehand), pressing the power button for two seconds switches it on.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
1 Mar. 2025
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But — and here’s the punchline most of you already saw coming — despite the many things that have happened since May 2022, Manchester United are rubbish.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2025
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Inspectors put two coolers at a Miami 7-Eleven on the Do Not Use list and the trash was the new home for bacon, cheeseburgers, milk, Jamaican meat patties and other food in one of those coolers.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Mar. 2025
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Coming into contact with trash from unknown sources can be risky.—
Patty Weasler, RN, BSN,
Verywell Health,
26 Feb. 2025
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Rocky Gap Campground offers plenty of dog-friendly campsites, and pet waste stations and water bowls are available throughout the area.—
Trudy Haywood Saunders,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Mar. 2025
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The participants are paid for collecting and recycling waste and attending Bitcoin education sessions.—
Frank Corva,
Forbes,
1 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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“White elephant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20elephant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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