jazz

noun

ˈjaz How to pronounce jazz (audio)
Definition of jazznext
as in nuts
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 Only one of them, the jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, is still alive. — Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 1 Apr. 2025 April will be the premier month for jazz in Denver and Boulder, due to the arrival of the Denver Jazz Fest. — Bret Saunders, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2025 Again, in my crib days, my mom played a lot of jazz music for me. — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025 In addition to a visionary oeuvre melding jazz, electronica, hip-hop and beyond, Flying Lotus has been quietly building a film/TV career over the last decade. — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jazz
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jazz
  1. nuts
  2. garbage
  3. nonsense
  4. blah
  5. rubbish
  6. stupidity
  7. punk
  8. drool
Noun
  • The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of nuts
Noun
  • The organization also sampled 25 different polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organic compounds that form when oil, wood or garbage burns.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Town Councilman Tim Clayton said the new fee, which will be charged to residential customers, will be effective April 1 and is part of a contractual agreement with Republic Services, the town’s garbage/recycling carrier.
    — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Definition of garbage
Noun
  • But when real users interact with it, the system collapses, generating nonsense or failing to handle inputs that deviate from the demo script.
    — Albert Lie, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Slapping down Putin should mean something, but that pronouncement, like everything Trump utters, is undercut by him spouting nonsense, including about a third term, which his press secretary laughed off yesterday.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of nonsense
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  • American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.
    — Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Definition of blah
Noun
  • The site was first excavated beginning in 1995, and in 2018, scientists began collecting, analyzing and radiocarbon dating fossils unearthed from El Gigante rubbish piles.
    — GrrlScientist, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of rubbish
Noun
  • These deaths come on the heels of the equally bizarre and jarring death of Adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) which brings us to four adult survivors dead, though Adult Travis died offscreen (sparking a really fascinating mystery that ended in sheer stupidity and disappointment).
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Also helpful is the show’s other winning quality: an enthusiastic embrace of its own stupidity.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
Definition of stupidity
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  • Expect bold presentations, unexpected heat, and a vibe that feels like a punk show masquerading as fine dining.
    — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • For the red carpet occasion, Stefani chose to put a punk spin on countrycore dressing.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of punk
Noun
  • Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!
    — Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
Definition of drool

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