dude
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“This dude sees the world a little differently than us,” Alfredo worried.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
He won some fame as a surfer dude in Amy Heckerling's 1982 hit teen flick "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
There was a lot of figuring out my life in the first two albums — I’m begging for this dude or I’m staying with this guy way too long.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
But to snap a portrait of one delicious little donut dude with a backdrop of the city that embraces him.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
Scrap goes, “Ohhhh. That’s the one with the li’l dude with the ring, right? ‘My precioussss,”’ he says in his best Gollum voice.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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