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Adjective
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The Lyrids are known for producing bright, fast-moving meteors that tend to lack persistent trails, but have the potential to spawn spectacular fireballs as larger chunks of Comet Thatcher smash into Earth's atmosphere.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Our experience in that regard has not been spectacular.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Kawamura makes the point explicit late in the proceedings, with a hallucinatory outdoor sequence that briefly removes us from the train station altogether—easily the story’s most glaring structural and stylistic anomaly.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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The NYT‘s profile either downplayed or omitted all of these glaring ethical red flags.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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She’s been working at a fancy shoe store that’s really a fancy drug front for far too long.—
Annah Feinberg,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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Throw on some trendy sandals to bring together an outfit that’ll take you from a fancy dinner to late-night cocktails.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Thoreau can be a tough read, [especially] Walden, with all that florid 19th-century prose.—
Thor Christensen,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Early in 2024, taggers began turning its skyscrapers into canvases for florid graffiti art.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Jon Hamm rocks a snazzy blazer and tinted sunglasses while out in New York City on March 31.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
4 Apr. 2026
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One floor underground is a labyrinth of snazzy, high-tech equipment designed to bio-hack, educate and optimize performance.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Small visual tricks are ubiquitous yet nothing here feels tacky.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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For every tacky house, a tacky person; for every tacky person, a tacky house.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Illinois and Chicago are high-tax, big-promise blue strongholds with long, tawdry histories of waste, fraud, patronage, insider deals and blatant corruption.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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And there’s something offensively tawdry that all of this is in mere service of extracting rent.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Then, there’s a dramatic landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael, with gray clouds muttering on high and brighter blues impending in the sky below.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The Earth is so bright out there and the moon is just hanging in front of us, this black orb out in front of us.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Glittery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glittery. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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