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Poll #33292 April 2025

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

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What are your favourite releases of April 2025?

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&TEAM - Go in Blind
4 (19.0%)

82Major - Takeover
0 (0.0%)

Ace (VAV) - Minha Razao
0 (0.0%)

Aimers - Starry Night
1 (4.8%)

Ampers&one - Kick Start
2 (9.5%)

ANODE - 그대로 해줘 (feat. Moon Sua (Billlie))
0 (0.0%)

Apink - Tap Clap
1 (4.8%)

ARTMS - Burn
2 (9.5%)

Astro - Moon
2 (9.5%)

BEAST (Highlight) - Chains / Endless Ending
0 (0.0%)

Big Ocean - Attention
5 (23.8%)

Burvey - 아에이오우
0 (0.0%)

Cheeze - 집 데이트 / 그렇게 됐어 (feat. Young K (DAY6))
0 (0.0%)

Chen - Broken Party
0 (0.0%)

Chenle - Tear Bridge
0 (0.0%)

Chuu - Only Cry in the Rain
3 (14.3%)

Close Your Eyes - All My Poetry (내 안의 모든 시와 소설은)
0 (0.0%)

Daesung - Universe
0 (0.0%)

Dokyun - Light on Me
0 (0.0%)

Enhypen - Loose
2 (9.5%)

Fifty Fifty - Perfect Crime / Pookie
1 (4.8%)

from20 - Eye Candy
0 (0.0%)

Ha Hyunsang - 고양이
0 (0.0%)

Han Seungwoo - Positive Vibes
0 (0.0%)

Hebi - Onward
0 (0.0%)

Hi-Fi Un!corn - Beat It Beat It
0 (0.0%)

HITGS - Sourpatch
1 (4.8%)

ifeye - Nerdy
3 (14.3%)

Ilhoon - Michaelangelo
1 (4.8%)

Jang Hyunseung - Orbit
0 (0.0%)

Jannabi - 사랑의이름으로! (feat. Karina (aespa))
0 (0.0%)

Kai - Adult Swim / Walls Don't Talk / Wait On Me
5 (23.8%)

Kang Daniel - Mess
0 (0.0%)

Katseye - Gnarly
8 (38.1%)

Keonhee - I Just Want Love
0 (0.0%)

Kep1er - Yum
4 (19.0%)

Kik5o and AleXa - Vital Check
1 (4.8%)

Kim Sungjoong - DNDN (Day n Day n Night)
0 (0.0%)

Kisu - Face&Pace
0 (0.0%)

Kwon Eunbi - Hello Stranger
0 (0.0%)

Kwon Jieun - I'm in Love
0 (0.0%)

Kwon Jinah - 재회 / 놓아줘 / Love & Hate
1 (4.8%)

Kwon Soonkwan - Our Memories (with Jongho (Ateez))
0 (0.0%)

Loveone - Drama Queen
0 (0.0%)

Lucy - 잠깨 / 하마
1 (4.8%)

Mark - 1999
4 (19.0%)

ME:i - Muse/Ready Go
0 (0.0%)

MEOVV - Hands Up
5 (23.8%)

Moon Sua x Siyoon - Snap (feat. sokodomo)
2 (9.5%)

Navi - No Matter How Hard I Try (별짓 다 해봐도)
0 (0.0%)

NCHIVE - Never Give Up
0 (0.0%)

NCT Wish - poppop
1 (4.8%)

NEXZ - O-RLY?
0 (0.0%)

Niel - She
0 (0.0%)

Odd Youth - I Like You
0 (0.0%)

Oh My Girl - Oh My
0 (0.0%)

Oneus - Time Machine
1 (4.8%)

Onew - Mad
1 (4.8%)

Park Woojin - Cool & Hot (feat. Ha Sungwoon)
0 (0.0%)

Polarix - Dreamless
0 (0.0%)

Seo Jaeyong - Naro/On The Trail
0 (0.0%)

Shin Eujin - Anthem For You (이별찬가) (離別讚歌)
0 (0.0%)

Solar - Want
2 (9.5%)

Super Junior-L.S.S. - Pon Pon
0 (0.0%)

Sweet:ch - Candy House
0 (0.0%)

Ten - Silence
1 (4.8%)

TIOT - Flex Line
0 (0.0%)

tripleS - Girls Never Die/Rising
4 (19.0%)

TWS - 마음 따라 뛰는 건 멋지지 않아? (Countdown!)
2 (9.5%)

UDTT - Really Really
0 (0.0%)

Unis - Swicy
0 (0.0%)

VVS - Tea
0 (0.0%)

Whib - Bang Out
0 (0.0%)

Xikers - Breathe
2 (9.5%)

Yeonjeong - I'll Love the Evening
0 (0.0%)

Yoo Heedo - NADU
0 (0.0%)

You Daeyeon - Talk
0 (0.0%)

Younite - Rock Steady
0 (0.0%)

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/sumptuous-2025-06-26

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 26, 2025 is:

sumptuous • \SUMP-shuh-wus\ • adjective

Sumptuous is used to describe things that are very expensive, rich, luxurious, or magnificent.

// The celebratory meal was a sumptuous feast of dishes from our host’s homeland.

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Examples:

“With comfy living areas with bistro tables, sumptuous marble bathrooms, and large private lanais with sweeping views of the ocean, mountain, or gardens, guests have ample room to spread out, relax, and really make themselves at home.” — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025

Did you know?

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens may be a few of your favorite things, but are they sumptuous? Alas, though the best things in life are often free, sumptuous is a child of the Latin word sumptus, meaning “expense,” and it typically describes things that can only be had at some significant expense. A sumptuous lifestyle, for example, is more likely to involve silver-white bling than a silver-white winter that melts into spring. Sumptus has another English relation, this one tied even more closely to conspicuous consumption: sumptuary laws are largely historical regulations limiting extravagant expenditures and habits, especially on moral or religious grounds. (The sump in consumption is coincidental; that word comes from consume, which has its roots in Latin sumere meaning “to take up, take.”)