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Recent Examples of poxBoth conditions are caused by viruses closely associated with squirrels, although squirrel pox is more common among red squirrels typically in the United Kingdom.—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025 Squirrel disease spreading outdoors Some suspected the squirrels carried squirrel pox, a rare virus in the US that often kills red squirrels.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025 Well, is that not the flamenco dress calling the chicken-pox patient spotted?—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025 The Obama-era vegetable push was a pox on the nation; now veggies are back in all their green glory.—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pox
Events invented so people could look bad (during the voodoo weddings at ExoTiki 2000, the Cacophonists threw raw, rancid chicken entrails at each other) are now used as a backdrop for people to showcase their interesting lives.
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Chuck Palahniuk,
Vulture,
13 Nov. 2025
But beneath this viral joke among African Americans lurks a hidden history of slavery, voodoo, and rebellion.
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