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Recent Examples of tongue
The trailer shows a tattoo artist giving a client a painful tongue piercing before giving himself a tattoo.
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Matt Minton, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Hoka completes the look with a black tassel dangling off the tongue and a bird logo on the heel.
—New Atlas, 3 Feb. 2025
But once on the balcony, Dixon pushed her against the wall, pinned down her arms, pressed his body against hers and tried to force his tongue into her mouth, the lawsuit said.
—Martha Bellisle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The taupe and gray-green exterior, combined with a plaid fleece tongue and ankle padding, is stylish enough to wear with jeans without clashing.
—Ali Faccenda, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2025
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Matt Minton, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Hoka completes the look with a black tassel dangling off the tongue and a bird logo on the heel.
—New Atlas, 3 Feb. 2025
But once on the balcony, Dixon pushed her against the wall, pinned down her arms, pressed his body against hers and tried to force his tongue into her mouth, the lawsuit said.
—Martha Bellisle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The taupe and gray-green exterior, combined with a plaid fleece tongue and ankle padding, is stylish enough to wear with jeans without clashing.
—Ali Faccenda, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2025
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Noun
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The Academy didn’t seem to mind, awarding the film 13 Oscar nods, the most for any non-English language film in history.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2025
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During its time of suspension, Thomas said the district along with the cities and law enforcement agencies, wrote letters in support of SROs to the legislature requesting to change language in the law to be able to bring back SROs into schools to ensure students and staff safety.—
Jacqueline Devine,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The distinct local vocabulary is sprinkled with Guaraní, an Indigenous language widely spoken in neighboring Paraguay.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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Pulp Fiction might be the dictionary of his cinematic vocabulary, offering insights into the language of his other works.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Director Brady Corbet denied the allegations, saying that stars Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones worked for months with a dialect coach to perfect their characters’ Hungarian accents, and that only the Hungarian portions of the film were adjusted manually using Respeecher technology.—
Zoe G. Phillips,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Feb. 2025
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In his interview with Red Shark News, Jancsó said AI was used to tweak certain parts of the Hungarian dialect spoken by stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist for the sake of accuracy.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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Glover’s score — for rock band, piano and acoustic strings — evokes pop idioms while politely sidestepping direct quotation.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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