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But nowadays, the audience attention is that of a gnat.
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Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
The View's Hot Topics table claimed its first casualty of the season when Whoopi Goldberg spotted a gnat, tracked it, and clapped it to death live on the air.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
The consequence of Constantine’s adoption of the faith was less a grand design than a lucky break; Roman emperors mostly had the life spans of gnats, and Constantine happened to avoid assassination.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
In a land of Major League giants, Ichiro would be a gnat.
—Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
The View's Hot Topics table claimed its first casualty of the season when Whoopi Goldberg spotted a gnat, tracked it, and clapped it to death live on the air.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
The consequence of Constantine’s adoption of the faith was less a grand design than a lucky break; Roman emperors mostly had the life spans of gnats, and Constantine happened to avoid assassination.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
In a land of Major League giants, Ichiro would be a gnat.
—Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gnat
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“Gnat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnat. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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gnat
noun
: any of various small usually biting two-winged flies
Medical Definition
gnat
noun
: any of various small usually biting dipteran flies (as a midge or blackfly)
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