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Adjective
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By agreeing that the reaction is a strident possibility, the next step of determining what to do about it is opened.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025 -
Lost on no one was the fact that Koch was in town—a rare visit, really—to accept the 2025 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, named in honor of the economist who was pretty strident in his opposition to tariffs.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Heading into the first intermission, the Leafs had momentum and a raucous crowd behind them.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Actor Wendell Pierce observed the raucous dancing from the safety of the beach.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
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But that came to a screeching halt during a winter ski trip with his family when Quesnell suffered a compression fracture of a vertebra in his back and a break in the bottom right loop of his hip.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 May 2025
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The game came to a screeching halt in the top of the sixth.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2025
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Baltimore deserves credit for stepping up and sending Tullis-Joyce the wrong way, particularly against a cacophonous backdrop of angry United fans behind that goal.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Episode 2, set at Jamie’s school just a few days after the incident, thrives in the chaos of innumerable moving pieces as kids push through crowded passageways, cram inside cacophonous classrooms, and even parade out to the playground during an unexpected fire drill.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Ajax is made with abrasive cleaning agents that effortlessly lift the grime bathtub rings leave behind.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
2 May 2025
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The abrasive cleaner can strip the finish, roughing up and damaging the surface.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This jarring image pushes audiences to imagine and inhabit a different kind of reality.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
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Her first trip into a war zone is jarring, but provides scant insight.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Partners in crime and brothers forged in bonds that run thicker than blood, Ray and Manny part ways on a tragic, discordant note.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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The play’s piano-and-strings compositions, by Grant Olding, closely recall Nicholas Britell’s discordant TV soundtrack; Richard wears sumptuous suits and velvet loafers without socks, then goes to prison in comfy gray sweats, sporting quiet luxury to the end.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Cawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cawing. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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