austereness

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Noun
  • Beyond their asceticism, the six members of the group - Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, and Yoonchae Jeung - hail from different countries, including the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Frayne writes that some second- and third-century sects, such as the Encratites, Priscilliantists, and Manicheans, advocated against meat eating, typically as part of a broader asceticism that might also include celibacy.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Mackay and Turner are both excellent, two movie stars who seem totally game to be asked to move with real gruffness.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Those pledges – that will cost billions of euros, end austerity and test the country’s frugal mindset – resonated with many Czechs who have seen their real incomes plunge in recent years as the country tackled soaring inflation.
    Reuters 3 hr ago, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That move was part of a broader effort to eliminate austerity measures initially suggested to close a $402 million revenue gap.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With its single Xenomorph antagonist, its cramped environment, and its fairly helpless cast of characters, a video-game adaptation sounds like an exercise in pure dourness.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But the music constantly resists her dourness.
    EW Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Austereness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/austereness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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