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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhospitableness
Noun
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The organizations have also warned of the risk of friction between Israeli troops and people seeking supplies.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025 -
Preventing this form of friction is first and foremost a design challenge.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Almost every organization has a version of this tension.—
Talie Smith,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Bring Her Back is still a messy endeavor, even with what feels like a newfound discipline, not to mention a superior grasp of pacing and catch-release tension, happening behind the camera.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
30 May 2025
Noun
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In spite of his ability to carry the ball forward — a point of difference from his fellow midfielders — Willock has never quite established himself as integral, at least in part because of his struggles with injury.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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Persevering in spite of tragedy was a theme echoed in several speeches delivered Wednesday.—
Christopher Buchanan,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.—
Sable Yong,
TIME,
28 June 2024
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Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Gone was the discord and rudeness that is often synonymous with the Big Apple.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
25 May 2025
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Evidently, the discord stemmed from their division of labor.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
27 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That an 82-year-old man who had aged out of prostate-cancer-screening tests has been found to have an advanced malignancy should not be surprising.—
Benjamin Mazer,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2025
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At this age, malignancy was always on the list of possibilities for almost any new symptom.—
Lisa Sanders, M.D.,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The filmmaker may have set the movie in a Finnish location known to few but the universal story rings a bell on alienation and the healing powers of community that seems fit to strike a chord with audiences far beyond Finland.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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Even doing it for a week improves your sense of well-being and decreases your sense of alienation and loneliness.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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As to the media statements, Cook could not offer adequate proof of one element ― malice ― and so could not make out a prima facie case for defamation as to the media statements.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The actress, however, bore no malice, moving to Europe until her death from a brain tumor in 2011, aged 58.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
14 May 2025
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“Inhospitableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhospitableness. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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