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verb

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goldbrick
Verb
  • Picture a disheveled gambler, with his empty pockets sticking out, trying to bum a smoke from someone on the Las Vegas strip.
    Jay Paris, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • When someone in the music industry told him that Deconstruction had already broken up, the news deeply bummed him out.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Outside scenes meant hanging around in the tropical sun for hours, and toward the end of the project a lot of the crew fell ill.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Clearly, City, top of the table with games in hand on all their rivals, don’t plan to hang around in this division.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba is very serious, without Idina Menzel’s deadpan humor, and Bailey’s Fiyero is played like a straight-ahead charmer, not a slyly fun slacker, and Michelle Yeoh’s Madame Morrible is grounded instead of grand.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • About 3 million workers were idled, and recovery has been mediocre at best.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Hospitals are shutting their obstetrics units, and companies that sold baby formula are idling factories.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Goldbrick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goldbrick. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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