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Recent Examples of grievous Using the tee fitting wasn’t his most grievous error. Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025 But serious crashes also occur that take lives and cause grievous injuries, even when everyone is strapped in. Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2025 The most grievous use of the act was by Franklin Roosevelt who used it to intern over 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II—without providing them with a hearing. Richard Stengel, Time, 23 May 2025 Paul Doyle, 53, was also charged with dangerous driving and five other counts claiming different variations of causing grievous bodily harm, Prosecutor Sarah Hammond said. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for grievous
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Adjective
  • Come spring, the Ranger III carries everything from outhouses and diesel fuel for the generators to construction supplies to repair whatever damage Mother Nature did to facilities over the harsh winter.
    Diana Lambdin Meyer, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • The United States and Europe must finally sever all economic ties with Russia (e.g., nuclear partnerships) and impose harsher sanctions on Russia and secondary sanctions so that China and others face consequences for their support of the war.
    Laura Thornton, Twin Cities, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Once Schaefer’s emotional moment was done, the rest of the conversations ranged from mildly awkward to borderline painful.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Their venom, similar to a bee’s or wasp’s, results in a painful, itchy pustule or blister on the skin.
    Gareth McGrath, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • After landing, the most dangerous times, statistically speaking, are takeoff, approach, and initial climb.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2025
  • And the Santa Barbara temblor revealed just how dangerous brick buildings built in that era could be.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • There's a tragic kind of symmetry in the way Carmen Berzatto, a guy who grew up in household devoid of nurturing, later devotes his life to caring for strangers.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 June 2025
  • This tragic event raises urgent questions: What caused such extreme weather?
    Bethany Wales, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Pritzker’s speech, which occurred as national Democrats were largely leaderless in countering and criticizing Trump’s early chaotic presidential moves, aimed to fill the vacuum and garnered significant attention by offering a searing response to the president for a national audience.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • And first baseman Colby Thorndyke comes in with a searing swing.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • What is a totalitarian leader other than an individualist taking that creed to its cruel conclusions, erasing the uniqueness of every other person into mere characters in a drama?
    Ed Simon June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • This realization reconfigures the entire book, recasting their ongoing dialogue and seemingly cordial relations as an interstellar jail—and the novel itself into an extended, especially cruel prison sentence.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Many analysts believe that robots like the K2 are likely to complement human workers by taking over monotonous or hazardous duties, which allows people to focus on more complex, creative, or supervisory tasks.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025
  • There’s more stupid romance around harder substances but few chemicals are more hazardous to ambition than THC.
    Benjamin Hale June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • And in the process of owning your role in the unfortunate circumstances, remember, never blame your superior or the board in a public forum.
    Carol Geffner, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • While Malle is clearly qualified to oversee editorial content, the timing is unfortunate for her chances.
    Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025

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“Grievous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grievous. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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