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Recent Examples of tongue
The suede exterior and leather details on the tongue and heel elevate them enough to look stylish on business trips, while the sneaky perforations on the upper add extra breathability.
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025
Conor McGregor hasn’t fought in the UFC in nearly four years, but his name is still on the tips of tongues whenever Irish fighters are mentioned.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The responses from the rodent rescuers in aiding anesthetized peers ranged from gentle sniffing and grooming to more forceful actions such as mouth or tongue biting, eventually escalating to pulling the tongue out of the unconscious mouse to clear the airway.
—Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
But your tongue isn’t the body part first tempted at House of the Little Pig, an upscale yet approachable new dining destination at Barber Valley’s Barber Station.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2025
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025
Conor McGregor hasn’t fought in the UFC in nearly four years, but his name is still on the tips of tongues whenever Irish fighters are mentioned.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The responses from the rodent rescuers in aiding anesthetized peers ranged from gentle sniffing and grooming to more forceful actions such as mouth or tongue biting, eventually escalating to pulling the tongue out of the unconscious mouse to clear the airway.
—Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
But your tongue isn’t the body part first tempted at House of the Little Pig, an upscale yet approachable new dining destination at Barber Valley’s Barber Station.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue
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Advanced tools like optical character recognition (OCR) and natural language processing (NLP) extract key data— for example, sender details, dates, and document types — instantly. 2.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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That echoes language used by former President Joe Biden, who championed US alliances and sought to bring American partners in Asia closer together on security cooperation in the face of what the US sees as a growing security threat from Beijing.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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English speakers also adapted vocabulary from the Vikings.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
11 Mar. 2025
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One minor but effective way to sound more assertive is to nix hedging language from your vocabulary, Barbara Shabazz, PsyD, clinical psychologist based in Virginia Beach, tells SELF.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Similarly, when Mari speaks on the phone to her clients, her Miami dialect drops completely.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
3 Mar. 2025
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Declan has been reading up on local lore, revealing that there are 13 different dialects in the area, which also boasts a church made entirely of bundled hay.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2025
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There is a French idiom that says when something is so easy, it can be done with ‘les doigts dans le nez’ — the fingers in the nose.—
Liam Tharme,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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While often used sarcastically to mock true believers, the idiom reflects Italy’s enduring ambiguity toward Fascism, even 80 years after its fall.—
Mattia Ferraresi,
airmail.news,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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