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or dodos
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as in conservatives
a person with old-fashioned ideas
youngsters helping old dodos learn to use computers
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as in idiots
a stupid person
she called him a dodo after he lost the concert tickets
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Recent Examples of dodoes
After embarking on the quest to bring back dodos, the company also teamed up with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation to create native habitats in which the bird survived before its extinction.
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Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
Colossal's de-extinction projects now span dodos, dire wolves, mammoths, and moas.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
Colossal's de-extinction projects now span dodos, dire wolves, mammoths, and moas.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dodoes
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For The Times) The Supreme Court upheld states’ ability to count mail ballots postmarked by election day but arriving later, which conservatives have argued slows vote counting but liberals defend as expanding voter access.
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Giving the president more direct control over who serves on those bodies has long been a goal of conservatives, who have objected to unelected bureaucrats wielding too much power with little accountability.
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Every fan base has idiots and every popular athlete attracts trolls.
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Colocousis said people who think scam victims like him are gullible idiots don’t understand the sophistication of criminal organizations behind online fraud.
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The America250 website lists nonprofit organizations, including those that focus on civic engagement, education, housing, conservation and veterans, that people can donate to.
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Two veterans go face to face in Portugal’s match against Croatia in Toronto.
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There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.
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Working with the British Antarctic Survey, Thomson was mapping the area's rock layers and collected marine reptile fossils to help with future dating efforts.
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Take a closer look in person and spot the fossils of shells that could be tens of thousands, even millions of years old.
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The lunatics are running the asylum.
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Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, Will Arnett and other lunatics round out the cast.
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“Dodoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dodoes. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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