as in hunk
a physically attractive man
she promised her friend that the blind date would be a real stud
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Recent Examples of stud
Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Along with other trompe l’oeil items, bags cinched with belts, or embellished with leather, chainmail, or studs also made their mark during fashion month.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2025
Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
Among the 15,000 to 20,000 artifacts waiting to be explored is a copy of the Omar Khayyam studded with 1,500 emeralds, rubies, amethysts and topazes set in gold, the trunks of first-class passengers and perhaps the greatest treasure of all: 3,364 bags of mail stuffed with seven million letters.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Still, some pitchers were not too happy, including Brewers stud reliever Trevor Megill, who watched his teammates have issues throughout the weekend.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Along with other trompe l’oeil items, bags cinched with belts, or embellished with leather, chainmail, or studs also made their mark during fashion month.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2025
Verb
Built with concrete and latticed brickwork and studded with stick-in-your-mind design elements, like a dramatic burgundy tile motif, the 39-room property inserts sophistication in between the beachwear boutiques and fish taco grill-outs.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
Among the 15,000 to 20,000 artifacts waiting to be explored is a copy of the Omar Khayyam studded with 1,500 emeralds, rubies, amethysts and topazes set in gold, the trunks of first-class passengers and perhaps the greatest treasure of all: 3,364 bags of mail stuffed with seven million letters.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stud
Noun
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But she's got her choice of handsome high school hunks, including Reid (Andrew Liner), Davis' son and the school's quarterback, and Lucas (Garrett Wareing), the poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Their weirdly cozy 750-square-foot studio layout, a tiny dot in a 3.5 million-square-foot hunk of capitalism, was to these bohemian commandos a rebuke to the city’s destruction of their old neighborhood close to the mall.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Needing a par on No. 18, McIlroy striped his drive, but just hung his wedge approach out to the right and into the green side bunker.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Apr. 2025
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The grey, striped tabby on Vito Corleone's lap wasn't actually in the original script.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Earlier this month, SCOTUS lifted an injunction that barred deportations under the AEA and ruled that any person the administration sought to deport under the proclamation must be given due process.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2025
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For six weeks Israel also has blockaded Gaza, barring the entry of food and other goods.—
Samy Magdy,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The Lyrid meteor shower has been active since April 17, but the bright fireballs have yet to hit their peak in activity while streaking through the sky.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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One Mil managed to fly away before explosives-laden drones streaked in to finish off the two that didn’t escape.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The island is home to over 260 bird species, as well as other animals like alligators and foxes.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2025
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The foxes, however, eat the hares and thus limit their population.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2025
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So far, East Himalayan banded wolf snakes have only been found in three sites of northern Myanmar and Tibet, an autonomous region controlled by China, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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Since that campaign, California conservationists and scientists banded with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation to push for its permanent protection.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The filmmakers ensure that viewers similar in age to the kids on screen get an eyeful of what those robotics gatherings are like for their contestants, who arrive from all over the globe.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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Overall, Printemps New York is a multifaceted, visual eyeful, where the architecture and decor might overwhelm the merchandise for some.—
David Moin,
WWD,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services had recommended that investors vote against the payouts, expressing concerns about the process used to set the compensation.—
Saeed Azhar and Arasu Kannagi Basil,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Both of these Olivier-winning stage shows are new adventures set amid global phenomenons, complete with cameos by familiar faces and live renditions of mind-bending spectacles — albeit for very different narrative contexts and with drastically distinct audience impacts.—
Ashley Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Stud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stud. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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