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One day, a milquetoast accountant (Jason Bateman) discovers that Diane has hacked his information, which leads to a crazy cross-country trip in which the two characters are reluctantly stuck together.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
Rising conservative activists disdained this approach as both milquetoast and politically ineffective.
—Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made By History, TIME, 10 June 2024
Likely because of the milquetoast international response to Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia and 2014 annexation of Crimea, Putin did not anticipate the depth of Western intelligence sharing with Kyiv or the flood of munitions into Ukraine, either.
—Keith L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
Pairing him with milquetoast Jacob isn’t a compelling C-story either.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 3 May 2024
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
Rising conservative activists disdained this approach as both milquetoast and politically ineffective.
—Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made By History, TIME, 10 June 2024
Likely because of the milquetoast international response to Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia and 2014 annexation of Crimea, Putin did not anticipate the depth of Western intelligence sharing with Kyiv or the flood of munitions into Ukraine, either.
—Keith L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
Pairing him with milquetoast Jacob isn’t a compelling C-story either.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 3 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milquetoast
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Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it.Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Don't stand there like a coward, come here and say it.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
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Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
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At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
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Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
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Repeatedly taking large blood draws from nonpregnant mice also woke up retrotransposons in blood stem cells, indicating pregnancy isn’t the only trigger.ByCatherine Offord, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
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That is because cats see guinea pigs as big hairy mice, which is their favorite prey.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Milquetoast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milquetoast. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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