woolgatherer

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Noun
  • The reports of his contemporaries conjure a wild cross between Don Quixote and Don Draper.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances.
    Teddy Wayne June 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • What the optimists did not foresee was that power could eventually shift back.
    SARAH BUSH, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
  • Projected over 162 games, that’s a 94-win clip — a total that would surprise even the most wild-eyed optimists about the potential of the Giants in the first year of Buster Posey taking over as the president of baseball operations.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
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“Woolgatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woolgatherer. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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