butt
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Huffman’s characterization of Bree is three-dimensional and completely straight-faced, brimming with compassion and curiosity — and, really, so very funny, but without ever making Bree the butt of the joke.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
OK, so get your butt around to everyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The whole thing had been a real pain in the butt for Bill.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The minister revealed that nine out of 10 fires "are human-caused and most arise from carelessness: a cigarette butt, a barbecue, work carried out without precaution".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I stopped talking to her. I acted like a real butt, if you want to know the truth.”
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
The pitch to restaurants “was getting more butts on seats,” Templeton said, along with better customer tracking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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 were bright green with pokey stinger-looking things on their butts, and they were as long as my index finger.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Meanwhile, downloading software and MP3s was sometimes agonizingly slow; even worse, they’d gotten their butts kicked when they went online to play Quake or Half-Life against geeks who did have cable modems.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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