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Recent Examples of baroque Colonial churches like Santa Rita stand watch over the glassy bay, their baroque bell towers mirrored in puddles left by high tide. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 The drinks were baroque, but precise. Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2025 There are experts who sing baroque music the correct way. Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025 Snif Founded by Bryan Edwards and Phil Riportella in 2020, Snif is the beauty industry’s clean scent disrupter offering fine yet affordable fragrances, mists, detergents and candles with baroque and whimsical aromas. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for baroque
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Adjective
  • Just don't glaze because that's heaping someone with excessive and insincere praise.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Typically, when there is an outbreak of hemorrhagic disease, Tennessee saw excessive rain in spring and early summer with dry coditions in late summer, the agency said.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In Minnesota, there are contests for rosemaling, a Norwegian folk art, which is characterized by intricate patterns of flowers and swirls.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Captains also have the critical power to choose which players to pair together, an intricate dance of team chemistry and opposition matchup that can make or break a Ryder Cup bid.
    Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • During the third quarter, Fever star Kelsey Mitchell left the court due to extreme cramping in her lower body.
    Frank Nunns O'Connell, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But the plan roundly ignores the contributions of climate change to the state's extreme heat problem.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Moscow has denied involvement, and security analysts caution that attribution is complicated.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On a journey spanning four continents, the Kohlers will battle physical, mental and emotional exhaustion, navigate the complicated world of visas and hopefully break three world records in the process.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Huppert delivers a commanding performance as Marianne Farrère, a wealthy heiress whose extravagant gifts to a much younger artist ignite public outrage.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Okane is desperate at the prospect of losing both her true love and her one defender, and her desperation gives rise to extravagant and harrowing drama.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The political resonance of his project arises not from an explicit statement of values but from a tender demonstration of complex, undeniable humanity.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The fossil chemicals in question are a special types of steranes, which are the geologically stable form of sterols, like cholesterol, that are found in the cell membranes of complex organisms.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Similar protests occurred in Brazil over steep living costs and poor healthcare and education ahead of the country hosting the 2014 World Cup tournament.
    Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This figure marks a steep decline from last year’s already historic low of 31%, and continues a nearly five-decade slide from the high of 68% recorded in 1972.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • These are common but complicate long-term planning for federal agencies.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Despite differing views on a variety of security issues, the group, like Gilpatric’s, reached a clear consensus: nuclear proliferation by any additional country would diminish U.S. power, complicate strategic planning, and increase the likelihood of nuclear use, accidents, and disasters.
    MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Baroque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baroque. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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