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Noun
  • Although the new government seems willing to listen to Alawite concerns, there’s a lingering resentment, with many pointing to the community’s complicity in torture and war crimes — whether in the security services or gangs of thugs known as the shabiha — over the 14 years of the conflict.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There was a time, not long ago, when men who lifted weights for fun were seen as either thugs or narcissists.
    Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His affinity for wrestling villains, or heels, adds another layer to his potential return.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • His villains include both Presidents Bush; his heroes stretch back to William McKinley but include Richard Nixon, who raised tariffs in response to low-cost manufacturing from Asia, and, Lighthizer insists, Ronald Reagan.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Armed with his signature mop, the unlikely hero battles freaks, gangsters and corrupt CEOs while trying to save his relationship with his son.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
  • His involvement with Max (Laura Haddock) thrusts him on an international journey that puts him at odds with both Russian gangsters and his own colleagues in intelligence.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Every day Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump's administration is removing from our communities.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Trump’s false claims about other countries emptying their jails of violent criminals to prey on Americans have been fact-checked and denied.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • He was dressed in a pirate’s costume at the time in July 2015, Monroe County deputies said.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But when he’s presumed dead after a tragic run-in with a pirate ship, our heroine is forced to take up with the spiteful Prince Humperdink—that is, until a masked man in black jumps in to save her.
    Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Peter and Rose are then tossed into a world of conspiracy involving White House officials, a metro bombing, assassins, the vice president's daughter, and Peter's own father — who, according to official record, was a traitor to his country.
    Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The assassins were working for Gordon Wick (Ben Cotton), the real culprit behind the DC Metro bombing along with Vice President Redfield (Christopher Shyer).
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • While Muhammad Ali made his professional boxing comeback with a win against Jerry Quarry at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium on October 26, 1970, a group of hoodlums robbed the Black Mafia of more than $1 million in cash and jewelry at a nearby after-party.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • At least 49 businesses have been robbed so far in the spree, according to the United Bodegas of America (UBA) trade group, which is offering a $5,000 bounty on the bandits.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Several warring factions exist within the Zone, as well as lone bandits and stalkers.
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Plug-ugly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plug-ugly. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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