skylarker

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Noun
  • Forget the monkeys; this is the most dangerous part of our new destination, and the one with the greatest potential to surprise at season’s end.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Rooting against Taylor Swift is like rooting against Dorothy versus the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And, of course, look for those with an axe to grind—from extremist groups to rogue states and struggling superpowers—to capitalize on the global lack of leadership to make gains.
    Maha Hosain Aziz, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The plan would also initiate the creation of an Economic Security Cooperation Board, a new institution with membership open to all countries except rogue states such as Iran, North Korea, Russia, and of course China.
    Eyck Freymann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Luckily, on one dive, I was accompanied by Stephanie Mutz, a commercial fisherman with an expertise in urchin harvesting.
    Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The foreign urchins also need play rooms, with free toys and games.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • With their heavy bodies, the rascals had ridden down the oak trees to crop the luscious acorns from the tree tips.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Till then, the always-in-hot-water antics of CIA attorney/reluctant spy Owen Hendricks (Centineo) keep us engaged and curious over how the troublemaking rascal is going to get out of another mess he’s made.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Skylarker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skylarker. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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