draconic

Examples of draconic in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web In the popular roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, a five-headed, draconic deity bears the goddess’ name. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024 To end the draconic demon’s droughts, Indra battled and killed Vritra, freeing the rain, enabling sunlight and creating a new order. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024 Quetzalcoatl Film Appearances: Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) One of the rare original kaiju to be created between the current boom of giant monsters and the creature-feature kaiju phase of the ’60s, Q features a draconic Aztec god who decides to make a nest for itself in the Chrysler Building. James Grebey, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024 The Stellar Odyssey offers a chance to glimpse some of the brand’s most complex creations, ranging from simple moon phase displays to perpetual calendars, equation of time, sky charts, and the draconic and anomalistic lunar cycles. Carol Besler, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2022 For example, the interior face of the iconic Reverso cradle features three lunar displays (the synodic cycle, the draconic cycle and the anomalistic cycle). Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021 The third face shows the moon phases in the Northern Hemisphere as well as the draconic lunar cycle (to show the height of the moon) and the anomalistic lunar cycle. Roberta Naas, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for draconic
Adjective
  • The penalties can be draconian, but typically, the penalty for a non-willful violation is $10,000.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The rest of the Valley appeared to have been horrified by the candidate—particularly by his draconian and racist views on immigration, on which the tech industry relies.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Audiences also freaked out about the film's oppressive tight spaces and extremely effective horror sequences, giving The Descent its reputation as one of the scariest films of the 21st century.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The oppressive noon heat stifled my brain while sweat streamed from my temples.
    Alexis Landau, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • How does Reed manage to revisit some of the world’s most barbarous acts without succumbing to despair?
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Netanyahu has voiced that idea repeatedly, both before and after the Hamas attack on October 7 — the idea that Israel is a bastion of Western civilization in an uncivilized, backward, and barbarous region.
    Vox Staff, Vox, 9 May 2024
Adjective
  • The match seemingly will involve all of the stars who just competed at Crown Jewel, only with a few extra major stars thrown in and the sadistic WarGames structure serving as the playground for the stars involved.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Like the best thrillers of this ilk, though, its darkest impulses do not weigh it down but rather give it a sadistic, jet-black comic edge.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The incident evokes the brutal post-Soviet years of murky executions in Russia among the political and business mafias.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The brothers were convicted in 1996 of murder with special circumstances in the brutal shotgun killings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, inside their Beverly Hills home.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • These ruggedized oscillators offer stability and reliability under harsh conditions, ensuring that communications and navigation systems can maintain accurate timing on the receiver side, even when GPS signals are compromised.
    Markus Lutz, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Despite their high elevation and harsh climate, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak weren’t simply outposts or rest stops, but cities with their own economies.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The jihadi embrace of suicide attacks on civilians convinced many Americans, including many policymakers, that the United States was facing an inhuman foe.
    Monica Duffy Toft, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The best speedruns reduce epic games meant to take dozens of hours to single-digit minutes through a combination of exploiting glitch-enabled shortcuts and inhuman skill.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Rooted in a myth suggesting that ravens were negligent or cruel because their babies typically left their nests at a young age, rabenmütter is a term used to guilt German mothers who emphasize their careers.
    Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Yet Waters began the season out of Kerr’s 12-man rotation, the victim of a cruel numbers game that a deep roster creates.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024

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“Draconic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draconic. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.

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