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Adjective
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The actress donned a slinky metallic shift dress in her latest Instagram post in partnership with the skincare brand Shiseido.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026 -
Red flags included bitterness or any metallic notes the beans may have picked up during processing.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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What's more, this door alarm features three sensitivity levels and emits a loud, shrill sound that will instantly scare an intruder away.—
Stephanie Gray,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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When Nosferatu showed his corpselike face, the Wonder Morton’s Vox Humana (human voice) and concert-flute pipes buzzed together in a shrill cluster.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The committee agreed that Wednesday's death was a tragedy, but McCollum said the mayor's rhetoric contributes to people clashing with ICE agents.—
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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After clashing with coworkers, the character resigned from the force.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Spanberger and Sherrill should, and will, face strident calls from their LGBTQ+ constituents to go further in their support for trans people of all ages, and to not let misinformation and propaganda cloud their decisionmaking while in office.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
6 Nov. 2025
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Newsom’s anti-energy agenda has been forceful, strident and clear from his first days in the governor’s mansion.—
Will Oneill,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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So the pair took a romp through wine country for Christina’s birthday, clinking glasses at Progeny Winery in Napa Valley and Restoration Hardware in Yountville.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Jan. 2026
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Later on, the younger kids in bed, a gathering of lawn chairs, clinking ice, and summer crickets or cicadas, frogs, whatever, Ray, what is that?—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Sports radio can be loud and raucous, blaring with bluster and bellowing.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Aztecs make their second trip to Phoenix in a month, this time to face controversial new conference member GCU in one of the nation’s most raucous home-court atmospheres.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Jinn notes that this supereffective cleansing oil rinses completely clean, leaving skin soft rather than squeaky.—
Iman Balagam,
Vogue,
6 Jan. 2026
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The squeaky wheel definitely gets the grease today.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Judge Sara Ellis has listened to hours of testimony from citizens' accounts of jarring encounters with federal agents.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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Throw in the six sacks the Titans defense secured and the numbers get even more jarring.—
Nick Suss,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Clanging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clanging. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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