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to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage
a man of integrity who was never afraid to beard the lion in his den
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Recent Examples of bearded
Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
Three bearded figures wrestle two lions in a stylised scene that looks more like a dance than a hunt.
—Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
What’s striking is that when scientists sequenced the bacteria, the genetic fingerprints matched almost perfectly with those from an outbreak tied to bearded dragons a decade earlier.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The other day, as the opera’s softball team, the Pitch Hitters, readied for an evening game in Central Park, a bespectacled, bearded opera employee stood on a red plastic box affixing a GoPro camera to the backstop.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Scorsese is bearded and bewhiskered in this adaptation of Nick Tosches’ 2002 book.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
Three bearded figures wrestle two lions in a stylised scene that looks more like a dance than a hunt.
—Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
What’s striking is that when scientists sequenced the bacteria, the genetic fingerprints matched almost perfectly with those from an outbreak tied to bearded dragons a decade earlier.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The other day, as the opera’s softball team, the Pitch Hitters, readied for an evening game in Central Park, a bespectacled, bearded opera employee stood on a red plastic box affixing a GoPro camera to the backstop.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearded
Verb
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Tensions rose when 51-year-old Alfonso Ayala confronted Wilson, sparking a heated exchange that quickly turned physical, the station reported.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Fortunately, there are straightforward ways to reduce your chances of being confronted with violent or disturbing videos.—
Annie Margaret,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Jackson faced several setbacks this season but proved her fitness during the 100-meter dash rounds the past two days.—
Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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This operation faced some challenges due to warmer weather and lower relative humidity.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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More to Explore By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Sep. 2025
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The more hirsute Bellucci was reduced to stealing a solitary game in the first hour from the purple streak of lightning running the show from the other side of the net.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Sienna Miller has been spotted rocking long boho blonde mermaid waves, while Suki Waterhouse has tried it out on her signature shaggy layers and bangs.—
Jeanne Ballion,
Glamour,
11 Sep. 2025
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Nighy was even anxious seeing himself in character with a shaggy mane and an unusually long beard reflected back to his eyes on the & Sons set.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Hares are also born fully furred and with their eyes open, a trait called precocial, whereas rabbits are born hairless, blind, and vulnerable, needing more parental care in the early stages of life.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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But the felt’s furred obscurity conjured novel mysteries.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Flowers of the Cristata group look like hairy brains.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
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The heist and rescue – followed by a zookeeper’s lesson about the hairy, multilegged creatures – gave me a new respect for the spiders and the keepers at the Cincinnati Zoo and a fascinating story to share with our readers.—
Terry DeMio,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But that hypothesis, Harland wrote in a bristly 1964 Scientific American article, was not supported by any concrete evidence.—
Laura Poppick
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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Step 3: Tidy the Harvest When the garlic is fully cured with papery skins and brittle, brown leaves, brush away any excess soil with your fingers and clip back the bristly roots.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Aug. 2024
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“Bearded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearded. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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