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Recent Examples of full-blooded These will come and go; some will be brilliant, others a full-blooded assault on your critical faculties. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025 His mother is full-blooded Navajo, and his grandparents still live on the reservation in the Southwest. Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025 Farrell has loved breaking out the villain of Oz Cobb in the series from caricature to full-blooded, bleeding, complex anti-hero. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 July 2025 The academy graduate has endeared himself to supporters with his full-blooded approach. James Pearce, New York Times, 17 May 2025 The second half of Villeneuve’s saga fulfills the promise of the first, turning the set-up of the 2021 film into a full-blooded action tale of a new messiah. Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 5 May 2025 From her sharp scolding of a student nurse to her own tears of self-recrimination, Floria is a full-blooded and beautifully etched character and, yes, a heroine. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025 For a player who, by his own admission, had given full-blooded, heart-and-soul commitment to the game of basketball, a future beyond the hardwood seemed unthinkable but inevitable. George Ramsay, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025 Thus, Condon’s film is both a gritty prison drama and a full-blooded Technicolor musical. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for full-blooded
Adjective
  • Ruidoso lives on, fierce as the thoroughbred breaking from its gate: scarred already, but running anyway.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Keeneland September Yearling Sale in Kentucky, the largest thoroughbred auction in the world, grossed a record $531.7 million this year, handily beating last year’s $427.9 million.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Leo, hired as their lead guitarist, had the right look—rough around the edges, with long dark hair and tanned skin.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Its broad, meticulously kept tanned dunes dissolving into rolling surf and the deep blue Pacific with breathtaking sunsets are a photographer’s dream.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Add stock and bring to a vigorous simmer over medium-high.
    Elizabeth Mervosh, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The participants completed at least two daily exercise snacks (defined as moderate-vigorous to near-maximal physical activity for five minutes or less), three times a week or more, over a period of 4 to 12 weeks.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Chester Arthur’s ruddy face is framed by lacy, drooping curtains.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
  • Jokes at their expense are easy and cheap, though each of these ruddy head wounds caps an individual story of insecurity and frail hope for more abundant days ahead.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • Being passive aggressive and giving non-committal responses is clearly not working.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But even with the aggressive approach, the talent gap was evident.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But if you too have been mesmerized by the Belle Époque aesthetics of recent video games like Lies of P and Clair Obscur, Halloween is the perfect opportunity to put on a red beret and parry with the best of them.
    James Factora, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
  • On the Democratic side of the race, four candidates are now vying for the party's nomination, with hopes of flipping the seat from red to blue.
    Hannah Pinski, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • An emphatic 8-4 win has softened the blow a bit — especially with Zach Benson and his four assists back in the lineup — and the Sabres are missing key pieces on defense.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The speaker removes the bag from the face of the man kneeling before him, who then proceeds to flash a Hollywood smile and give an emphatic thumbs-up.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The light from the heat lamp makes a glowing red line on the curved side of the phone.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Her dress burns like the end of a glowing cast iron.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Full-blooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/full-blooded. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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