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maggots

noun

plural of maggot

as in whims

a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action the last maggot he got in his head resulted in a disastrous extramarital affair

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Recent Examples of maggots Students came together as a community to ask Cook County School District 130 Superintendent and the board of education to take immediate action to eradicate cockroaches, mold, mice and maggots from their schools. — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 The creamy white larvae are maggots and have no wings, wing buds, or legs on their soft, tapering bodies. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026 Role Model covered ‘maggots for brains,’ and Sienna Spiro covered my song ‘less’ the other day. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2026 Telltale signs of a screwworm infection include growing wounds or lesions and feeding maggots on living animals. — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 The screwworm gets its name from the maggots’ habit of burrowing — or screwing — into a wound, according to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. — Fabiola Sánchez, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026 Unlike most of the maggots, these ones develop in living flesh. — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026 The resulting maggots hatch within a day and begin ravenously feasting on the living flesh of their victims. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026 The Medfly targets more than 250 types of fruits and vegetables by laying eggs inside them that hatch into maggots, which make the produce inedible. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 24 July 2026

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But elevating the whims of progressive activists and government bureaucrats above the wisdom of the marketplace has proven a costly mistake and undermined consumer choice.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
This is hardly new, and scream queens, in particular, are often left to the whims of the internet.

— Mariam Bagdady, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026

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Researchers have seen bees choosing among flowers, ants comparing potential nest sites and mosquitoes selecting egg-laying sites all making worse decisions as the number of competing options increases.

— Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
Many bees are used at avocado farms in Queensland to pollinate the crops, so the thefts could have a knock-on effect on other food production.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 27 Sep. 2026

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