eight balls

plural of eight ball

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Noun
  • Zhang hopes Nighttime Sounds will use arthouse technique to convey the unspoken emotional lives of rural villagers — feelings rarely expressed even within their own communities, let alone to outsiders unfamiliar with China’s countryside.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Unconventional methods drew criticism, but the transition from outsiders to trusted advisors showed that hacking skills can evolve into legitimate expertise.
    Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This Hulu series, which bows season five in September, brings together the lovable misfits of the Arcadia, a grand apartment building in New York City where way too many people get murdered.
    Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Surrounded by a diverse group of military misfits, the colonel tries to reinstate discipline and professionalism with the help of the base’s previous interim leader, who just happens to be his estranged daughter, Captain Maggie Quinn (Taylor Misiak).
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jazz is an art form with an outsized share of mavericks, rebels, and creative dissidents who’ve built careers by blazing their own particular paths.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cool people aren't merely deviants.
    Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Eight balls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eight%20balls. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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