nine days' wonder

variants also nine day wonder
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Noun
  • What are Tommy Shelby's last words?
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The stunned sibling couldn’t believe his last words to Chris would be so ordinary, yet so profound in light of what happened.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The latests forecasts show a new round of storm systems will increase rain chances across much of Northern California and the Central Valley in the coming days.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • These latests features are designed for enterprises who want to integrate their AI technology with either existing Salesforce data or even their own data.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • KitKat is asking for the public's help after thieves made off with 12 tons of the company's chocolate — prompting the launch of a new tracking tool to help locate the missing shipment.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the Civil War, transformed Northeastern cities into denser and denser wooden tinderboxes filled with tons of humans more than capable of accidentally generating sparks.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • If trends persist, a third and fourth quarterback will be added to the room for training camp, and then only two will be on the active 53-man roster, with another taking up a practice squad roster spot.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The Texas Rangers carried a four-game losing streak headed into a series against American League West foe Seattle and bucked that trend in a 2-1 win Monday at Globe Life Field .
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • However, gardens are highly disturbed, and these natural modes of pest management are often disrupted.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The mechanism moves awkwardly from driving modes to the paddle-shifting option or into reverse.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • If the creation of fiction is a layered endeavor—if premise, plot, style, and so on are to some extent separable—then must all the layers be made by the same individual?
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The styles have polarized lenses and feature 100% UVA/UVB protection.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • His guest, a man named James Fishback, who is in his early thirties, summed up his hopes for the future of the conservative movement.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This event was part of the #MeToo blackout awards season, in which attendees wore black in support of the movement—but the British Royal family is never supposed to make a political statement of any kind.
    Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • An Alcaraz-Fonseca showdown would be a hot ticket.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That hot ticket item, unfortunately, has sold out, but plans are in the work for future screenings.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
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