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Carney won an election in April with a strident message for Canadians, warning that theirrelationship with America would change dramatically in the coming years.—
Paula Newton,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025 -
For days, the National Weather Service had been issuing increasingly strident warnings.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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From the moment it was announced the Ryder Cup would come to New York, many expected a raucous crowd that could rival the 1999 Brookline crowd in Massachusetts for the most hostile toward Europeans.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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This raucous feast for the senses stars Farrell as a wild gambler slowly losing it all.—
Madeleine Janz,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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First, the escalator going up to the main speaking floor came to a screeching halt.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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Recently, internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare likened the platform to North Korean hackers for bypassing anti-scraping protections on websites.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Aug. 2025
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Bowling at run-hungry batters on largely unforgiving pitches in vast, cacophonous stadiums with huge outfields in front of a partisan and at times baying crowd — plenty of English bowlers have found bowling in Australia akin to a Sisyphean task.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Mistakes do abound on Getting Killed, from cacophonous guitar skronks to stumble-drunk hi-hat taps that completely throw off a song’s rhythm.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Then, take a non-abrasive sponge and scrub.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
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Speaking publicly for the first time about the controversy over his abrasive remarks to a Christian minister, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said his city is welcome to all, noting the history of its Muslim residents being targeted with hate.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In one of many tonally jarring subplots, Vince works out a scam to burn down his dead mother’s house in Brooklyn to collect the insurance money with the help of a corrupt fire marshal.—
Andrew Bernard,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Only on particularly bumpy tarmac did the GTS-spec suspension become too jarring with the adaptive dampers stiffened up in sport mode, but switching them to normal offered the best of both worlds—excellent, composed body control and tuning that ironed out imperfections remarkably well.—
Peter Nelson,
Robb Report,
1 Oct. 2025
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Wallen, who has seemingly made a name for himself more so by generating controversy than for his music, struck a particularly discordant note when he was caught on camera using a racist slur in 2021.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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But Tahoe opens things up to some truly discordant-looking color combinations.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Cawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cawing. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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