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Recent Examples of tongue
The only teams who started in a similar fashion played in the 1800s when bats were made with wagon tongue wood and fans arrived by horse and buggy.
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 21 May 2025
My name rolled off his tongue like it was meant to be said, temporarily stopping my panic.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 16 May 2025
The taste, a pink electrocution of the tongue, was indescribable—and there was a version that was more so?
—Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
As bats were swinging, tongues were wagging about Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s ruling that bans by the MLB end at death.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 21 May 2025
My name rolled off his tongue like it was meant to be said, temporarily stopping my panic.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 16 May 2025
The taste, a pink electrocution of the tongue, was indescribable—and there was a version that was more so?
—Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
As bats were swinging, tongues were wagging about Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s ruling that bans by the MLB end at death.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue
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Previously, pro-Kremlin trolls had been notably restrained in commenting on Trump, using neutral or careful language, Agentstvo reported.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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This platform uses rigorous standardization protocols, like OMB guidelines for demographics and ISO codes for language, ensuring consistency.—
Raghvendra Tripathi,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Who wants their grandchildren to emulate such limited vocabulary, negative language and divisive rhetoric?—
Christine Ledbetter,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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Fans of Harry Potter books, films will likely recognize the setting, vocabulary, characters at Epic Universe.—
Samantha Neely,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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There’s no universal language—only tribal dialects.—
Shekar Natarajan,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Because the characters are speaking a very distinctive local dialect, and that’s, of course, completely lost in translation.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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Powered by nine proprietary learning methods, the platform integrates real-time cultural signals - from memes and slang to idioms and ancient lore.—
Nell Derick Debevoise,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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But the nature of all idioms is that their meaning cannot be deduced from their components; the phrase kicked the bucket does not put the English speaker in the mind of an actual bucket, just as the word death does not remind him terribly of the letter D.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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“Tongue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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