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Recent Examples of gnarly
The Niners had to deal with a gnarly rash of injuries to players such as Aiyuk, star running back Christian McCaffrey and future Hall of Fame left tackle Trent Williams.
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Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
These two were working very stiff, including a gnarly pair of double-knees by Stephanie Vaquer to Kairi Sane.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Land Rover invited us to drive it the way it was intended—hard, fast, and on gnarly trails where cell service is as scarce as the uranium once mined from these hills.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 12 Sep. 2025
Privacy Will Be Affected Maybe that row of Leyland cypresses on your property is gnarly and overgrown, but the trees also provide privacy for both you and your neighbor.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
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Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
These two were working very stiff, including a gnarly pair of double-knees by Stephanie Vaquer to Kairi Sane.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Land Rover invited us to drive it the way it was intended—hard, fast, and on gnarly trails where cell service is as scarce as the uranium once mined from these hills.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 12 Sep. 2025
Privacy Will Be Affected Maybe that row of Leyland cypresses on your property is gnarly and overgrown, but the trees also provide privacy for both you and your neighbor.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gnarly
Adjective
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Lindell handles very ugly, difficult matchups and usually comes out on top, regardless of who he’s partnered with.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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If the scoreline made for ugly reading, the performance wasn’t much better.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Jets did precious little against the hideous Dallas defense and, on the other side of the ball, allowed scoring drives of 90 and 91 yards.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.—
Ed Simon
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Evshine Memory Foam Slippers Listen, airplane floors are disgusting.—
Carin Ryan,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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Some of the abuse that came later, though, was disgusting.—
Kevin Coulson,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And McConaughey, as a nervy reluctant hero, steers the searing, intense narrative about normal people living through the most hellish of circumstances.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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But the trip is going to be an extreme test of fortitude, fate, and faith, evidenced by Lionsgate's preview revealing obstacles including a hellish radiation storm, monster waves, meteors pummeling the Earth, and lethal bands of desperate survivors prowling the continent.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Maxwell comes off as both pathetic and loathsome.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2025
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And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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The Tigers won two of three against the Mariners early in the season, then got swept by Seattle at home and were outscored 35-14 during a July series that marked the start of a horrid slide.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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But the Bengals have a horrid ground game and couldn’t feed the ball consistently to their two best playmakers against the Vikings, and got walloped for it.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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While its smiling face looks up at you sweetly, its 620W motor generates a beastly 2300mm of H2O of suction pressure.—
Alex Harrington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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One of the toughest bosses from the original Daemon X Machina was the beastly Zeruchroar.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The show follows Ed Gein (Charlie Hunnam), an unassuming and odd man, working his family’s farm under the watchful eye of his hateful and vicious mother, Augusta (Laurie Metcalf).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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The student saw the hateful image and captured a photo from above.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Gnarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gnarly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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