Get NYT Connections Hints for March 18, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #646, including word connections and hidden categories.
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SINGULAR: Everyone wants to be unique and singular, yet we all end up copying each other trying to be different.
These terms describe something exceptional
Words meaning 'one of a kind' or 'distinct'
Exceptional
OXEN: Oxen spend their lives pulling our plows, but perhaps they pity how we're all pulling invisible burdens.
Words you'd encounter in Berlin
Common German vocabulary words
German words
SQUID: Squids can change color to hide, while humans change personalities to stand out.
Living creatures with unusual plurals
Animals that can be both singular and plural
Plural animals identical to their singular forms
REMARKABLE: Trying to be remarkable often leads to being remarkably unremarkable.
These words don't follow regular plural rules
Irregular plural nouns ending differently than -s
Plural words that are very different from their singular forms
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Hint: Exceptional
Hint: German words
Hint: Plural animals identical to their singular forms
Hint: Plural words that are very different from their singular forms