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Noun
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The series follows the fictional Holliday, a former star whose arrogance burned every bridge.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Blenkin told Variety in September 2025 that his character's laughter comes from arrogance.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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After two years of the Florida Panthers’ postseason dominance, is the road clear for another team to win the Stanley Cup?—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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The deal marks a major endorsement of AMD's AI hardware and software capabilities as the company competes with Nvidia for dominance in the AI chip market.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Jenny struggles with underemployment, loneliness, condescension from the men in her life, the disapproval of her cougar mother and, worst of all for her, her failure to conceive a child.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
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But their methods could often cross over into condescension, Palmer argues, mirroring the attitudes of imperialism that the Soviets often criticized.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
8 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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However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.—
Matteo Atti,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, and more strictly on the consumer end of the equation, the influencer’s standing within the social media sphere continues its upward ascendancy in cultural authoritativeness, even in architecture.—
Richard Olsen,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Some earlier African intellectuals looked at Black America with pity, even disdain.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Monster doesn’t have answers for these questions, just a general disdain for Americans and broad observations about our own cowardice.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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Any claim for Swift’s genius should reckon with her lapses into imprecision and pompousness.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Bossiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bossiness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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