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unsinkable rubber ducks

unsinkable rubber ducks is the plural of unsinkable rubber duck.

Meaning of unsinkable rubber duck

Noun

unsinkable rubber duck (plural unsinkable rubber ducks)

  1. A belief in a supernatural or paranormal phenomenon that people continue to hold, in spite of it being debunked.
    • Indeed, even if they are thoroughly examined and refuted in one age, they seem to reemerge within the next, and people will continue to believe them in spite of evidence to the contrary. This is what I have called the “unsinkable rubber duck” syndrome.2010, Paul Kurtz, Exuberant Skepticism, →ISBN, page 179

Questions about unsinkable rubber ducks

What is unsinkable rubber ducks the plural of?
Unsinkable rubber ducks is the plural of unsinkable rubber duck.

Words near unsinkable rubber ducks in the dictionary

  1. unsingular
  2. unsinister
  3. unsinkability
  4. unsinkable
  5. unsinkable rubber duck
  6. unsinkable rubber ducks
  7. unsinkableness
  8. unsinkables
  9. unsinkably
  10. unsinking
  11. unsinned

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