pilgarlic

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Noun
  • Four professional franchises that play home games within a couple of downtown blocks of each other—the Pistons, Lions, Tigers and Red Wings—have together risen from national mockery to playoff contention in the past few years.
    Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The long-standing lèse-majesté laws, which criminalizes criticism of the monarchy, is still used to intimidate and punish activists, making a mockery of any notion that Thailand is a land where speech rights are protected.
    Jeffrey Wasserstrom, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That means the committee couldn't meet its $880 billion target without touching the program.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Five, including their target, were hospitalized, prosecutors said.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Authorities struggled to identify and process all of the victims.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Paying ransoms does not guarantee a return to normal business operations, and 35% of victims who paid a ransom, according to the in-house analysis of data, either did not receive decryption keys or received corrupted keys.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The company has become a lightning rod for criticism from both the right and left.
    Phil Singer, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The guest list has become a lightning rod for messaging, particularly for Democrats who have struggled to regain their footing after blistering losses in November.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe instead of rats the cartoon should show sitting ducks.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
  • To the Mach 4 missiles, capable of taking out jets maneuvering at high speed , a Shahed is a sitting duck.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Orb-weaving spiders are known for crafting intricate and highly organized webs to hunt prey.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Nothing has been beyond Trump’s boorish reach, not even a Kennedy Center musical about a shark who befriends would-be prey or, briefly, the building that houses the American Red Cross.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Meek Mill being the butt of jokes negatively impacted his child’s life last year.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Midway through the 97th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday (March 2), host Conan O’Brien fired off a Kendrick Lamar one-liner that once again made Drake the butt of the joke — this time at the Oscars.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Goff’s staggering career revival — from middling starter on an 0-8-1 team to MVP candidate for one that’s 41-21 since, including the playoffs — mirrors the organization’s rise from league laughingstock to Super Bowl contender.
    Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The former Florida Gator has seen the club go from a laughingstock to a contender.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Pilgarlic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilgarlic. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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