adscititious

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Adjective
  • During the 10-week war, Prince Andrew flew several missions, including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, search and rescue and casualty evacuation.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The war game, focused on anti-air, anti-surface, anti-submarine and flight operations, has been conducted on a biennial basis since 2004.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gestures, colloquialisms, facial expressions, local cuisine, and the like are not incidental to a tongue but constitute it; sometimes, to capture a word or phrase, in writing or in an algorithm, is to stamp out its meaning.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike nihilism, with which cosmicism shares some similarities, the focus is on how small and incidental humanity is.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Past outages on this scale have been caused by a wide variety of errors, including faulty updates, the accidental injection of bad code, or a change to third-party software that doesn’t play nicely with a service.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In the caption of her Instagram post, King revealed that the accidental encounter went better than some might think.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Weirdly brassy dye job aside, Clarke is impressively natural as Alex’s easy smiles and superficial charm give way to flop sweat and nervous tics.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Whereas Black Ops 6 relished in the texture of its period setting, giving players maps ranging from a warlord’s villa filled with luxury cars or dilapidated bus depots overgrown with foliage, BLOPS 7 has a superficial glossiness to each of its levels.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Adscititious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adscititious. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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