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language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
don't give me that jazz about how you didn't know that it was illegal
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Recent Examples of jazz
After 13 years in Los Angeles, Welch has returned to Richmond and teaches youth hip-hop classes, in between publishing poetry and booking gigs at Yoshi’s jazz club in Oakland and other venues.
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
Part of your curriculum involved studying jazz music.
—Andrew Casillas, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Does jazz express one part of your personality, and classical music another?
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
John Coltrane Eligible since: 1986 The Rock Hall last nominated a pure jazz artist when Miles Davis was inducted in 2006.
—Troy Smith, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
Part of your curriculum involved studying jazz music.
—Andrew Casillas, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Does jazz express one part of your personality, and classical music another?
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
John Coltrane Eligible since: 1986 The Rock Hall last nominated a pure jazz artist when Miles Davis was inducted in 2006.
—Troy Smith, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jazz
Noun
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
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During another sale, an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle was placed in a garbage bag and sold in the middle of the afternoon in the Bronx.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
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In Dolton, residents can’t even be sure their garbage will be collected.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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The word had seemed like nonsense only a moment before.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Having a terrible job where empty, pandering nonsense is handed down by corporate headquarters.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
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Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2024
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On the evening of January 14, a woman was arrested after allegedly setting multiple piles of rubbish and trash on fire, Jim McDonnell, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said at a news conference last week.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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Combine principles with experience Anyone can send out glib; motivational rubbish based on principles.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Watch stupidity and laziness (my much better working title for The End of Work was The End of Laziness) rapidly disappear as technological advance erases so much of what people used to do for a living in favor of living for work.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
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Their books’ fantasies of martyrdom and religious metaphysics are a feint so as not to recognize the need for socialism at home and abroad, and to obscure American stupidity.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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This year’s lineup includes headliners the Bouncing Souls, one of New Jersey’s chief punk exports, high-energy British singer-songwriter Frank Turner, and the host himself, backed by his band the Mermaid.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2025
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By default, its attentions drift toward the accoutrements of a semi-imaginary, quasi-boho/punk lifestyle, with everybody living in quirky cool pads and wearing quirky cool clothes.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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Nate Burleson to haters of NFL's promo clip featuring Taylor Swift: 'Wipe the drool off your tank top' Burleson didn't hold back while addressing the critics who decried seeing Swift in an NFL hype video.—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2024
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The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2024
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“Jazz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jazz. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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