as in plays
to spend time in aimless activity
somehow, he managed to spend the whole morning fribbling instead of doing his assigned work
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Noun
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All around her, her fellow passengers are screaming and praying as water sprays in around the portholes and people are thrown from their bunks.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
2 Mar. 2025 -
Greer tumbled from the top bunk and suffered life-altering brain trauma.—
Kelly Davis,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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First off, the bulk of the trailer is Shrek and company scrolling through fantasy TikTok courtesy of the magic mirror, which shows dancing Shrek, shirtless Shrek and other nonsense, apparently posted by Pinocchio.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Spouted a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theories about who’s getting Social Security benefits.—
Brian Barrett,
WIRED,
20 Feb. 2025
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Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Many Red Sox fans have had it up to here with that building-for-the-future claptrap, so much so that expectations were scary low coming into the 2024 season.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
31 July 2024
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One relic makes your attacks inflict scarlet rot; another boosts rune acquisition for you and your allies; another adds a few points to your strength.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Hurricane Milton this past October laid bare the rot in our infrastructure.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Now Moore is proactively blaming President Donald Trump, grasping at straws to deflect the blame.—
John Teichert,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Mar. 2025
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Through February 2025, 29 ballparks have LED field lighting, 21 teams have food donation programs, 10 ballparks utilize solar power, six clubs have permanently eliminated plastic straws, and six ballparks are LEED certified.—
Candace Oehler,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Inspectors put two coolers at a Miami 7-Eleven on the Do Not Use list and the trash was the new home for bacon, cheeseburgers, milk, Jamaican meat patties and other food in one of those coolers.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Mar. 2025
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When the Denver City Council approved the new trash collection program in 2022, one of the selling points was a doubling of recycling collection frequency from every other week to weekly.—
Elliott Wenzler,
The Denver Post,
26 Feb. 2025
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Supposedly inspired by an improv exercise, the scene manages to say more about man’s relationship to power than any of the drivel that spills out of Cesar Catalina’s Emersonian mind.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
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With pay cable and streaming gaining a bigger and bigger foothold, Duffy kept looking for shows that deserved a wider audience while steering readers away from formulaic drivel.—
Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Dec. 2024
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