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Recent Examples of importunity Our own house has turned into a kind of office, a site of fax and phone, of administration and importunity. Seamus Heaney, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for importunity
Noun
  • This smaller platform also does not provide Audio Descriptions for its on-demand content.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Vance said one portion of Democrats are making unreasonable demands to restore more than $1 trillion over the next decade in healthcare spending that was cut earlier this year.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the better part of the 2010s, Twitter struggled to balance a desire for free-speech maximalism with scattershot attempts to quell harassment on the platform.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Bukele had been waging a harassment campaign against El Faro, which had aggressively covered corruption in his government.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Kobach has petitioned top Republican lawmakers to convene a special session with the goal of blocking the Kansas Department of Revenue from resuming its practice of accommodating gender marker change requests, according to a letter sent to GOP lawmakers and obtained by The Star.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The request is just the first step in a department review process and the rate hike that is ultimately approved could be lower.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some states have instituted requirements for websites with adult or pornographic content to verify visitors' age before granting access, although tech experts have pointed out VPNs can be used to get around those guardrails.
    Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • There will be 223 new apartments available altogether, once the Union at Rose Park is completed, and 165 of those will be considered affordable housing for lower-income residents, a requirement of each development's tax incremental financing.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Importunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/importunity. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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