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Recent Examples of gnarly
Fixing them is equal parts scientific miracle, big business, and human tragedy—a gnarly, technically complex procedure that requires months or years of painful recovery.
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The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Sometimes the surfer catches a gnarly wave, and other times a shark catches the surfer.
Luckily for one California surfer, a shark swimming in San Mateo County waters over the weekend managed to get only a sample of his surfboard.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
The song runs on for more than six minutes on the album, including a perfectly gnarly guitar solo from Freeman himself.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2025
Our thrillingly gnarly motor, Joan Vole, is monomaniacal about her work and her water sports.
—Emily Temple
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
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The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Sometimes the surfer catches a gnarly wave, and other times a shark catches the surfer.
Luckily for one California surfer, a shark swimming in San Mateo County waters over the weekend managed to get only a sample of his surfboard.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
The song runs on for more than six minutes on the album, including a perfectly gnarly guitar solo from Freeman himself.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2025
Our thrillingly gnarly motor, Joan Vole, is monomaniacal about her work and her water sports.
—Emily Temple
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gnarly
Adjective
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My goodness, these men wanted to win the U.S. Open with every bit of their being, to finally win a major championship and make this ugly, rainy day worth the battles behind them.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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The beautiful game deserves better than to be played against a backdrop of ugly anti-human rights policies.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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There are no save-the-cat redemptions for a man who became famous for torturing, murdering and performing hideous experiments on countless Jews as part of a team of doctors overseeing medical services at Auschwitz-Birkenau.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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All the juicy — and disgusting — details of each inspection can be found in a PDF embedded under each restaurant’s entry.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
15 June 2025
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War is disgusting, and that extraordinary chapter, which concluded what was undoubtedly the most terrible war in history, provides no exception ...—
Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
12 June 2025
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Bill Clinton’s attempts to overhaul health care in the 1990s doomed his fellow Democrats to a hellish 1994 midterm cycle.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 June 2025
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Still, the trailer alone reveals that the Weeknd encounters a crazed fan who puts him through some kind of hellish situation in a luxury hotel room.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Covino on the other hand plays Paul with a dash of loathsome rich guy energy, that feels like the polar opposite of Carey’s mild nature.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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If going through boxes is a particularly loathsome task, set a timer once a week for 30 minutes to start hacking away one cardboard box at a time.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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During her time on the stand, Ventura recounted horrid details about what allegedly transpired during her relationship with Diddy.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
23 May 2025
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The Hornets are coming off a horrid 2024-25 season.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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An American Werewolf in London' (1981) American dudes backpacking in England get attacked by a werewolf, one of them becomes a beastly nuisance on the full moon, and things get bloody freaky in old London Town.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork, but scant physical evidence of these beastly battles exists.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Wilcox’s attorney, Bryant Scriven, told the Orlando Sentinel his client was a disabled military veteran who is neither a violent nor a hateful person.—
Silas Morgan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
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This hateful message emboldened the audience to boo when graduates in Jewish Studies and Hebrew were called to the stage.—
Isabella Brannon,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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“Gnarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gnarly. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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