beamish

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Recent Examples of beamish Her Dorian is beamish until besmirched. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 That’s not the fault of the beamish, resourceful Ross, who, as a recent Evan Hansen, has experience portraying liars. Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beamish
Adjective
  • Even moderately keen cornering produces body roll and would bring doubtless admonition from the rear seats.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And the all-boffo, all-the-time production is exhausting (which is doubtless why the rare quiet moments stand out).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • Acharya can’t be entirely sure, but there’s no evidence an actual human being, much less any sort of expert on vaccines or shingles, reviewed her grant proposal or assessed her work.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Give me a little more sense of rivalry, competitiveness and, sure, bad blood.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And over the opening month of this season, Yamamoto’s confident mound presence has been mirrored behind the scenes, the pitcher becoming more vocal in game-planning meetings and assured in his clubhouse demeanor.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Both Roseman and Sirianni were confident that Mukuba could deliver the same blows in the NFL despite being undersized.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The numbers paint a generally positive outlook that, according to these forecasters, should allow the nation to narrowly dodge a slump.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • For the mom, the craziest thing about it is that she's never seen that many kind, positive comments under a video in her life.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Rest assured, the play makes liberal use of the Netflix show’s signature electro-ethereal theme music.
    Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Rest assured, though: Getting inside the heads of Hollywood honchos hasn’t made Rogen more sympathetic to them.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • February 2025 Queen of Swords: February’s energy is pushing you to set clear boundaries and make decisive moves, especially in your financial or professional life this month.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2025
  • Canada’s history is a beautiful one of decisive compromise and coalition building, those distinct if unglamorous liberal virtues.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Wedbush and Jefferies maintain bullish ratings, citing Meta’s ad platform and improving AI strategy.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Novartis’ Narasimhan, who has long been bullish on his firm’s growth in the U.S. market, said at the time that tariffs were a consideration but not the driving factor in the firm’s decision.
    Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But its guiding principle this time is not idealism but realism, with an unhesitating embrace of national interests and increased recourse to power politics.
    Sarang Shidore, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Proulx is an unhesitating observer of people and places, neither idealizing nor villainizing, but her acuity depends on a certain distance.
    Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023

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“Beamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamish. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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