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Recent Examples of Synonyms for authoritativeness
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These visitors scan for signs of credibility and impact.—
Talie Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025 -
Under her tenure, DR Congo’s foreign reserves climbed from $1.2 billion to nearly $6.8 billion, inflation slowed, and the BCC’s credibility improved among investors and lenders.—
Joël Té-Léssia Assoko,
semafor.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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There doesn’t appear to be much of a dispute about the validity of the tests finding.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Police the validity of Li’s license is currently under investigation by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Aug. 2025
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Paranoia is pure American, older than the Constitution—the northern states, for instance, denounced the three-fifths compromise as a Southern play for dominance.—
Book Marks
August 14,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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In the open era, age records have gone down slightly, but still show player dominance past traditional peak years.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
14 Aug. 2025
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And still, most new brands enter with a kind of hopeful arrogance, as if a good idea and some nice branding are enough to push past gravity.—
Joel Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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There’s a certain kind of arrogance that doesn’t yell or pound its chest.—
Stephanie Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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The effort to remove Cook comes as the administration has unleashed a campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion, and intensifies Trump's ongoing effort to gain influence over the U.S. central bank and push it to lower interest rates.—
Ann Saphir,
Freep.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Nvidia's second-quarter earnings report is expected to have significant influence on S&P 500 and options-market expectations.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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The kitchen borrowed the ingredient worship of Chez Panisse, but not its reverence for simplicity; the fancy culture-mash pizza of Spago, but not its Eurocentric hauteur; the cheffy precision of the French Laundry, but not its fussy formality.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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After all, as Everett reminds us with comic pomposity: The journey matters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 July 2025
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Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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Donald Trump’s political allies have long insisted, with more than a little condescension, that the press should take the President seriously, but not literally.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
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Friedland’s acute debut feature, drawn from her experience in the memory-care field, is a small miracle of realigned empathy, turning away from the condescension and easy sentiment of so many narratives about late-in-life adaptation.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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“Authoritativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authoritativeness. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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