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Recent Examples of thumbs-up
Separately, content pages will now have thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons to help personalize the company’s algorithms to your own taste.
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Chris Welch, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2024
The Messages app can now bold or italicize text, and users can now react to messages using emojis instead of the previously available options, which included a question mark, exclamation point, heart and thumbs-up.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
Imagine sending a thumbs-up emoji that actually looks like you.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
As the infant wails, the mother flashes an exhausted thumbs-up.
—Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2024
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Chris Welch, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2024
The Messages app can now bold or italicize text, and users can now react to messages using emojis instead of the previously available options, which included a question mark, exclamation point, heart and thumbs-up.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
Imagine sending a thumbs-up emoji that actually looks like you.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
As the infant wails, the mother flashes an exhausted thumbs-up.
—Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thumbs-up
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The Decades Menu – which brings back items from each era since Taco Bell’s founding in 1962 – is a nod to the past and a way to bridge generations, according to Tresvant.Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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For those with more energy, there are classes and lectures on all aspects of wellbeing, alongside regular recitals – a nod to Otto's belief that starving the mind while denying the body is no way to live.Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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The arrangement would also be likely to allow Musk and Ramaswamy to continue working in the private sector and serve without Senate approval.David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Miller and Homan do not require Senate approval, unlike homeland security secretary, ICE director and commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol.Elliot Spagat, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
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The goal of the Family Place Libraries program is to encourage libraries to be a family-friendly environment and transform them into community centers for literacy, early childhood development, parent education and engagement, family support and community information.Barbara D. Hathaway, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The other cast members will be going to show their support.Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Despite high-profile endorsements and millions of dollars spent on advertising, Colorado voters rejected Initiative 131.Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
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Early analysis of the election results suggests that Trump’s victory was more attributable to issues like the economy and immigration rather than an endorsement of his autocratic tendencies.Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Trump, who will become the 47th president of the United States, defeated current Vice President Kamala Harris, with at least 277 Electoral College votes, as of mid-Wednesday.Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2024
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Eliminating the department would require congressional action, likely including a supermajority of 60 votes in the Senate, the Washington Post reported.Ivana Saric, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
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Some analysts believe that North Korea might leverage its expanding nuclear arsenal in order to gain concessions from the next U.S. administration, particularly in the form of sanctions relief.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Donald Trump could tighten sanctions on Iran, reducing supply from the Islamic Republic and putting upward pressure on prices in the short term, the investment bank told clients in a Monday note.Jesse Pound,Samantha Subin, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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On top of higher wages, the contract would allow workers to use $5,000 initially allocated for a retirement match to boost their ratification bonus, Axios' Nathan Bomey reports.Axios, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Along with the wage increase, the new contract gives each worker a $12,000 ratification bonus and retains a performance bonus the company wanted to eliminate.David Koenig, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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But where the standard Meyers heroine would fuss herself into a fugue state of approbation, Anne remains oddly unruffled.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 29 June 2024
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When a substitute teacher at my high school referenced Infowars during class, my friends and I discussed it later with approbation.Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
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“Thumbs-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thumbs-up. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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