roadkill
Britishnoun
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“Wall Street was debating whether these guys were going to be AI roadkill,” he said.
“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.
From Los Angeles Times
Squirrels typically eat acorns, seeds, nuts and fruit, but are known to occasionally eat fresh carrion or roadkill, insects, eggs or other discarded food.
From Los Angeles Times
This is a man who, even aside from the worm in his brain and his propensity for collecting roadkill, is one of the biggest conspiracy theorists in the country.
From Salon
Someone — forgive the reference to other strange RFK Jr. stories — is bound to end up as roadkill.
From Los Angeles Times
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