trivia

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Noun
  • While praised by real-life doctors for being one of the more accurate medical shows, Scrubs still made room for plenty of silly, lighthearted nonsense.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 21 July 2025
  • In that case, this is a lot of nonsense over something that just won’t arise.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The names of previous detainees were carved onto the mental bunks.
    Juwayriah Wright, Time, 15 July 2025
  • He was told to sit on his bunk for the count, an interminable process that involved tallying every prisoner on the farm, from the men locked down in solitary cells to those wrangling cattle in far‑flung fields.
    Literary Hub July 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Some of it is certainly unlistenable, but the gems outweigh the drivel.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 23 July 2025
  • But who’s listening to such boring drivel, when the screen is showing a laughing, good-looking woman throwing a birthday party for her dog, complete with doggie birthday cake and balloons?
    Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The Wizard of Oz is, and always has been, a humbug.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • These small marine reef fish are often known by the peculiar common name, the humbug damselfish (Figure 1).
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • According to the probable cause affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE in January 2023, authorities identified him after matching DNA on trash taken from Bryan's parents' home to that of the sheath of the knife used in the stabbings that was left at the crime scene.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 24 July 2025
  • An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan,...
    Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
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“Trivia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivia. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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