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jarring

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verb

present participle of jar

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Recent Examples of jarring
Adjective
Although plentiful, colors should never be garish or jarring. Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025 The ride was a bit jarring over broken pavement in downtown Louisville, but the Sportage handled well on a long, scenic drive along the Ohio River through the hills of southern Indiana. Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
McLaurin acknowledged this change may be jarring. Tamara Keith, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025 Last Tuesday, officials endured yet another jarring U-turn. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jarring
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jarring
Adjective
  • According to Joy Gelbman, MD, a cardiologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, these results aren’t necessarily surprising.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 9 Sep. 2025
  • After my long flight home, I was relieved that the late-night visitor turned out to be nothing more than city workers on the job (and their job in this case, while surprising, didn't turn out to be too destructive).
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This discourse only got louder during minicamp when he was called out for his physical appearance and route running.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • As Anisimova kept making things close again, and the crowd kept getting loud, Sabalenka reminded herself to focus on herself.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Coaches are also bickering about money, a topic that would have felt out of place 10 years ago.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The casting here is perfection itself, with Cumberbatch and Colman bickering back and forth with all the drawing-room style of a new age Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall, or maybe the Burton and Taylor of The Taming of the Shrew with a dab of Virginia Woolf.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Dixie will raise the temperature clashing with Blythe Hart (Jessica Capshaw), the wife of Nashville Fire Capt.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Iraqi prime minister at the time, Nuri al-Maliki, was a Shiite sectarian with close ties to Iran, and many of his fellow Shia thought he could be relied on to listen to Iran’s wishes and find a way to avoid clashing with an Iranian proxy militia.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Now a 23-year-old rookie in the WNBA, the financial transition was startling; five years ago, Bueckers didn’t even have a bank account.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill faced startling accusations from his estranged wife Keeta Vaccaro amid their divorce proceedings in Florida court.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The once-beloved pastels will become harsh.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The pilgrimage, listed on the official calendar of jubilee events, comes as gay Catholics look to Pope Leo XIV to continue down the bold path of his predecessor to welcome into the church a group that has in the past faced alienation and sometimes harsh treatment.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the conclusion of the state's case Wednesday, the defense moved to have the case dismissed, arguing the state had failed to prove its case.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, a Minnesota court struck down the binary trigger ban, arguing that the legislature violated the state constitution’s single-subject clause by burying the ban inside a sprawling spending bill.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As foreign dignitaries descend in Beijing this week, the conflicting narratives on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are a reminder that eight decades after Japan's surrender, the guns may be silent, but the battle over the legacy of the war is far from over.
    Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Similarly, one TikTok filmed in a Walmart location shows stray unaltered tags with prices conflicting with higher on-rack pricing signs.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Jarring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jarring. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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