armchair

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Recent Examples of armchair January 1 Kick off the New Year with an armchair trip to Austria, where the Vienna Philharmonic will present its annual New Year’s Day concert in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein for the first time without an audience. Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Jan. 2021 The New York Times picked up the story and put it on the front page – an indication of how armchair analysis could be as telling as dispatches from the ground. Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 Marsha Music has started calling herself an armchair revolutionary. Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2020 With billions of people grounded because of the coronavirus pandemic, armchair travel has never been more important, especially for parents hoping to capture their kids’ attention and imagination. Sarah Firshein, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for armchair
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Adjective
  • Innovation should be practical and actionable, not just theoretical.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Here's How To Remove Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' The Next Steps for Finding Answers Scientists have identified several theoretical ways that microplastics could contribute to cancer.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • National Cares Mentoring Movement provides social and academic support to help Black youth succeed in college and beyond.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The initiative costs a one-time $50 fee and aims to help adults who did not complete high school unlock new academic and career opportunities.
    Denver7, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The pair tested their approach on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI), an unbeaten visual benchmark created in 2019 by machine learning researcher François Chollet to test AI systems' abstract reasoning skills.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Each shot looks like a page out of a cursed tome of twisted, postmodern fairy tales, the images forbidding and slightly abstract.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025

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“Armchair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armchair. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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