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jangling

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verb

present participle of jangle

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Recent Examples of jangling
Adjective
The jangling bleeps and bloops of the arcade game, meanwhile, come to form a score of sorts, a sonic diversion from the real world closing in on Cristian. Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026 Modesty might actually seem attractive, after the nerve-jangling, always-on-tenterhooks Trump years. Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jangling
Adjective
  • Gold and silver metallic tones can also be used to evoke the look of belt buckles, spurs, and other metallic accessories.
    Elle Turner, Glamour, 31 May 2026
  • The ceramic version comes in Cloud (off-white), Midnight (metallic black), Petal (blush pink), or Tide (pastel blue-green).
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 30 May 2026
Verb
  • The Household Cavalry, on dark horses and with brightly shining breastplates, trotted past, jingling like a cutlery drawer.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • The hiker then begins jingling bells in the bear's face in an attempt to scare it off, but the bear charges forward.
    Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • On shrill winter nights, Moscow’s power is conspicuous, its Orthodox cathedrals and Stalinist high-rises illuminated, though the view falls dim in the autumn and spring, shrouded in sheets of greige.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The chaos is still an acceptable price to pay for Birney’s expertly offputting performance, a shrill mania that gets increasingly comic over time.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • But more recently, Japan-bashing has become the core of a strident Chinese nationalism, with disastrous consequences.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 2 June 2026
  • Surely the demise of America’s most strident ideological foe, ten years after the humiliations of the Iranian hostage crisis, called for greater attention?
    Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • Amrava is the elegant bar in the courtyard of the Palace wing, with a tinkling fountain outside.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The marbled, frescoed, octagonal room was domed to amplify the sound of a tinkling keys at the center, and hosted regular recitals.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Blocking someone from entering a house of worship, or acting in a way that makes worshippers entering the building fear for their safety, is now a crime in New York under a law approved after a series of raucous demonstrations outside synagogues.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Stan Wawrinka, at his last Roland Garros, lost a gripping four-setter to the Dutch lucky loser Jesper De Jong on a raucous Court Simonne-Mathieu.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 27 May 2026
Adjective
  • The clashing magnetic fields of a white dwarf star and its neighboring red dwarf star are the source of signals from space that have remained a puzzle for over 20 years, radio astronomers in Australia have found.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 June 2026
  • In addition to their clashing color combinations, both shoes use different materials for two truly distinct looks.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 24 May 2026

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“Jangling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jangling. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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