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marbles

/ ˈɑːə /

noun

  1. functioning as singular a game in which marbles are rolled at one another, similar to bowls
  2. informal.
    functioning as plural wits

    to lose one's marbles

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The book was clearly fiction — featuring characters such as an absurdly monastic Bolivian radio-novela writer who loses his marbles and begins to confuse his characters and his plots.

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“The October surprise is that Trump has completely lost his marbles,” Anthony Scaramucci, the former president’s one-time White House communications director, posted on social media.

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One of them looked to be clutching several glass marbles in his hand.

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Flat glass marbles on the fire extinguisher “body” glittered in the sunlight.

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“A city is not only monuments and marbles; it is people,” said Giovanni Andrea Martini, a City Council member in Venice.

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