alive and kicking
Example Sentences
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Dude-bro culture is alive and kicking, especially in a highly energized manosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Sporting romance was alive and kicking in the Spanish capital.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024
In other words mRNA-recipes of certain proteins show that the viruses are alive and kicking.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
I thought you had the royals and a few barons with meaningless titles, but actually there’s still aristocrats who are very much alive and kicking in the U.K.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024
In the mornings Dad handed us the comics out of the paper and flipped over to the obituaries just to make sure everyone we knew was still alive and kicking.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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