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
And yet, Anderson’s “Resident Evil” has always been the butt of the joke, brushed off largely because his movies dared to be different when people wanted more of the same.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Oliver, the girl who kicks your butt at basketball is here!”
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
According to Wyoming paleontologist and study coauthor Jessica Lippincott, they are commonly nicknamed "squid butts" in the region.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
The charity has urged people to help wildlife recover by planting more trees and shrubs, installing water butts to store rainwater and leaving areas of grass uncut.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
Yet, culturally speaking, today men with big butts are considered less desirable than a man with a potbelly, which is no doubt wrong from an evolutionary point of view.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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