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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for armchair
Adjective
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Indeed, the risk of diversion from Plaintiff's sales is more than theoretical—the government can prove that Plaintiff actually sold LSD to a minor as well as an undercover officer.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, for example, can yet orchestrate a theoretical swing of close to £12million ($16m), a significant sum for those requiring summer rebuilds on finite resources.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Yemane’s academic ambitions led him to study architecture, earning both undergraduate and master’s degrees.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The law says funds must go to traditional academic expenses like private school tuition or homeschool curricula and textbooks, plus a few other costs like transportation.—
Audrey Dutton,
ProPublica,
18 Apr. 2025
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Go behind the scenes of our most abstract assignment of the year.—
Kendra Vaculin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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Gomes’s sculptures have a biomorphic feel to them, even while being fully abstract.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Armchair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armchair. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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