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noun

Definition of pinksnext
plural of pink
as in best
individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class the pink of society will be at the gala for the city's opera company

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pinks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of pink
as in stabs
to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object accidentally pinked my shoulder with his fencing sword

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  1. best
  2. stabs
  3. picks
  4. royalties
  5. societies
Noun
  • Could that kind of discovery make septuagenarian runners reach personal bests?
    Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Be an observable champion of associates' demonstrations of their personal bests.
    Chip Bell, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of best
Verb
  • But before Wheeler can kill Jamie, Beth stabs him in the heart.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In lieu of that, Beth simply drives straight to Jamie’s place and stabs him in the heart with a knife.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of stabs
Verb
  • The Thunder also still have to figure out if/how recent lottery picks such as Wallace, Ousmane Dieng and Nikola Topic fit into their long-term plans.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Editor’s picks What is Balatro?
    Scott Robertson, Rolling Stone, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of picks
Noun
  • Unearned, or investment, income includes interest, dividends, capital gains, annuity distributions (taxable distributions only and only when not from a qualified retirement plan), royalties, and passive real estate rental income.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The service recently instituted a policy in which a track that registers fewer than a thousand streams in a twelve-month span earns no royalties at all.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of royalties
Noun
  • Previously, the region was seen as largely unfavorable for food production and large-scale human societies in ancient times.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • These one-off events throughout history have resulted in disastrous demographic drops, but societies almost always bounce back.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of societies
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