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as in imperiousness
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as in credibility
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Recent Examples of authoritativeness
Meanwhile, and more strictly on the consumer end of the equation, the influencer’s standing within the social media sphere continues its upward ascendancy in cultural authoritativeness, even in architecture.
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Richard Olsen, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Richard Olsen, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for authoritativeness
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Love this imperiousness aimed at doctors from a hospital bed.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
21 Nov. 2025
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Had one of his schools swiped a Big Ten athlete under contract (with tampering as the mechanism), Sankey’s credibility on the issue would have been severely undercut and his relationship with Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti might have been damaged.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Diplomacy is preferable, but diplomacy without credibility is meaningless.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
semafor.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Still, whatever validity there is to his pain, Peter becomes a high priest of hallucination and Coon’s tortured Agnes his disciple.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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Both pleaded not guilty and sought to have their respective indictments dismissed on numerous grounds, including the validity of Halligan's appointment.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The United States has increasingly projected itself as a global bully, treating weaker nations as fair game for regime change by force — simply to assert power and dominance.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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But despite Derrick Henry’s early dominance on the ground and Jackson’s sensational fourth quarter, another season ended in excruciating fashion.—
Noah Trister,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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This one’s a little treasure that speaks with compassion and believability about the changing nature of relationships.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 Dec. 2025
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With the help of a couple of managers (Fisher Stevens and Jim Belushi) and Mike’s old guitarist friend (Michael Imperioli), Lightning & Thunder becomes a local hit that keeps getting bigger (almost too quickly for believability).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
23 Dec. 2025
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The goal here is not to inform or educate, to listen or process, to build or intellectualize but to win, to own, to dunk on, to break the opponent’s brain, to spawn an argument of such devastating definitiveness that the matter can be considered, once and for all, closed.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach take turns transforming into floating marketplaces — docks converted to catwalks, hulls polished to reflective arrogance, sales reps who can quote fuel burn like yacht owners care about costs.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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College football is awash in problems, including the Big Ten’s unrivaled arrogance, and its never-ending list of demands that would make Notre Dame blush.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Jan. 2026
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But these looser lending standards raise concerns of their own about the soundness of the financial system.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2025
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The move also was met with criticism elsewhere, ranging from the soundness of the Argentinian political and economic system to the White House’s use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund for the liquidity measure.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Authoritativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authoritativeness. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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