butt
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Gossip has whipsawed through Penn State group chats and become the butt of comment-section jokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The robots might be the butt of the joke.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
“It’s been a pain in the butt with the delays,” said Shirley Moreno, a SeaWorld San Diego employee in her 30s who takes the Surfliner five times a month to visit family in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
It was fragments from the pistol butt which enabled police to identify it as a Luger P06.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
If Mama were here, she’d tell me to get my butt down there and put something in my belly, especially since the first tryout is tomorrow.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
According to Wyoming paleontologist and study coauthor Jessica Lippincott, they are commonly nicknamed "squid butts" in the region.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
These included the Sarimukti Landfill in Bandung Regency, which torched dozens of hectares of land, and was suspected of having been caused by cigarette butts and a buildup of methane gas.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Taylor Swift fans have paid $25 for pieces of trash -- including cigarette butts and an ovulation test kit -- collected near the US pop queen's wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
They can be found planting trees, pulling weeds, painting flagpoles and picking up cigarette butts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The sheriff who’d been listening and nodding his head, butts me off.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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