beamish

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Recent Examples of beamish Her Dorian is beamish until besmirched. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beamish
Adjective
  • Lastly, while there is doubtless a tradeoff between construction costs and operations, a smooth operation at the big airport this coming summer — the busiest travel season — sure as heck needs to be a priority.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Add in the doubtless significant number of people under 18 using ChatGPT (who weren't included in the sample at all), and a decent majority of OpenAI's users probably aren't old enough to remember the 20th century firsthand.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That brought Aubry to tears — not an uncommon sight … less common than Rizo, sure, but still, not uncommon.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
  • And straddling it were the Mexicans and the gringos, like two children, eyes shut, their backs to each other, while the Apaches scuttled back and forth between their legs, not sure where to go with strangers bubbling up everywhere, filling their lands.
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The surface of this balance ball has a nonslip coating to provide a confident grip.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Senior forward Lucas Johnson stayed confident.
    Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The Heat again played Adebayo and Ware together and the results were again positive.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There is one bit of positive news — despite the high prices, most analysts don’t see any fuel shortages on the horizon.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The precision of the tailoring, the depth of texture, and the emotional clarity of the collection felt incredibly assured.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • From that moment on, Alcaraz seemed the more assured player, utilizing his favorite dropshot to lethal effect and capitalizing on Djokovic’s uncharacteristic unforced errors.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Ellison faces no similar issues and has strong incentive to be decisive.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Machado portrayed the episode as a decisive turning point in Venezuela’s long political crisis.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Those who are the most bullish on machine learning argue that artificial general intelligence, or AGI—artificial intelligence models that match or surpass human cognitive capabilities on any task—is imminent, just two or three years away.
    Charles Yu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • That dynamic can lead to strong stock performance during bullish gold markets.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The film doesn’t idealize the president as a man of unhesitating certainties.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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“Beamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamish. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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