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Recent Examples of jangly
In late April, a group of women with jangly earrings and effervescent energy sat in a beer garden in San Antonio with plastic cups of red wine in front of them.
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Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
But the album debuted at No. 2 on the U.K. album charts, disrupting a pop scene dominated by the sparkly synths of the Human League and OMD with jangly guitars and literate lyrics that were at once nostalgic and refreshingly bold.
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Al Shipley,
SPIN,
20 Apr. 2026
With the pounding drops of big-room house and the jangly swing of country, people started calling Bunt.
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Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The Bone Temple is part satisfying triumph, part missed opportunity, and its pluses and minuses bump against one another in jangly discord.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
Even as the gnarled guitar of their early EPs gave way to the jangly jaunts of 2022’s Stumpwork, the band could feel secure in the knowledge that any song featuring Shaw on vocals will sound like a Dry Cleaning song and nothing but.
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Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
9 Jan. 2026
The boogie-woogie vibe instilled by Federici’s jangly piano pegs it as a pool hall hit rather than the headphones-listening and ponderous nature of the original.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
But the album debuted at No. 2 on the U.K. album charts, disrupting a pop scene dominated by the sparkly synths of the Human League and OMD with jangly guitars and literate lyrics that were at once nostalgic and refreshingly bold.
—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
20 Apr. 2026
With the pounding drops of big-room house and the jangly swing of country, people started calling Bunt.
—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The Bone Temple is part satisfying triumph, part missed opportunity, and its pluses and minuses bump against one another in jangly discord.
—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
Even as the gnarled guitar of their early EPs gave way to the jangly jaunts of 2022’s Stumpwork, the band could feel secure in the knowledge that any song featuring Shaw on vocals will sound like a Dry Cleaning song and nothing but.
—
Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
9 Jan. 2026
The boogie-woogie vibe instilled by Federici’s jangly piano pegs it as a pool hall hit rather than the headphones-listening and ponderous nature of the original.
—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jangly
Adjective
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Football coverage can also often be dominated by ex-players, bluntly exchanging unnecessarily strident views.
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In a strident, aggressive veto message by Andrew Johnson.
Adjective
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Alternatively, lean into parachute pants' casual sheen by opting for a pair in metallic nylon or satin.
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That includes the overhanging flat roof supported by thin gold metallic columns.
Adjective
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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.
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The chaos is still an acceptable price to pay for Birney’s expertly offputting performance, a shrill mania that gets increasingly comic over time.
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The energetic Ecuadoran team, bolstered by a goal and a raucous crowd, has been given new life in this game.
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The game’s meaninglessness didn’t matter to the raucous sellout crowd that packed SoFi Stadium.
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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.
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Modesty might actually seem attractive, after the nerve-jangling, always-on-tenterhooks Trump years.
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During its brief existence, the Long Beach trio treated squeaky South Bay punk and bratty white-boy hip-hop as the unlikely boundaries of their sampledelic dirtbag reggae.
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Let the brush drip dry, then return it into its squeaky clean home.
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In a moment when the genre was bursting with innovators, pushing at its seams from all sides—jubilant, gospel-fiery soul-jazz; the first dissonant strains of free jazz; dizzyingly ambitious big bands; calculated cool—this ensemble seemed to lay back, in tempo and affect.
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In 49 games for Brazil, his goal return struck a dissonant chord with the Ballon d’Or campaign that Madrid waged on his behalf only two years ago, when a delegation infamously abandoned the ceremony in Paris upon learning that Manchester City’s midfielder Rodri was to be announced the winner.
Adjective
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The guitars and Tyler’s raspy vocals gain tone and weight.
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When the pair appeared on the debate stage in Atlanta, Biden alarmed Democrats as he, with a raspy voice, stumbled through many of his answers, often lost his train of thought and struggled to communicate his positions.
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“Jangly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jangly. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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