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Recent Examples of wallflower
This is not simply the unlikelihood of a popular guy finally noticing his wallflower best friend (like the story of Colin and Penelope in season 3).
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Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
This spring there are no shrinking violets, only beguiling wallflowers.
—Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2026
At first blush, Rachel appears to be a mousy wallflower irritated by Marty’s fast-cash gambits.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
This look gets its allure from being the wallflower of polishes.
—Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 22 Dec. 2025
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Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
This spring there are no shrinking violets, only beguiling wallflowers.
—Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2026
At first blush, Rachel appears to be a mousy wallflower irritated by Marty’s fast-cash gambits.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
This look gets its allure from being the wallflower of polishes.
—Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wallflower
Noun
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Jonsson plays Taylor, a watchful, aged-beyond-his-years introvert who has spent 13 years behind bars on a manslaughter charge — missing almost the entire life of his teenage son Adam (Cole Martin), from whom the boy’s mother is determined to keep him estranged.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
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Osaka, the pioneering introvert, is an icon.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The fiber-optic drones are the latest part of a cat-and-mouse race as Israel’s high-tech defenses race to intercept new threats, especially ones that are less sophisticated.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Sasha is then forced to play a ritualistic cat-and-mouse game that Robbins considers to be his homage to Deliverance (1972) and The River Wild (1994).—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Wallflower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wallflower. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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