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Recent Examples of mordancy But Lloyd’s version brims with mordancy. Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023 The gray-tint, cross-hatched drawings evoke George Cruikshank and Samuel Palmer, but the mordancy is vintage Sendak. The Week Staff, The Week, 17 Oct. 2022
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Noun
  • But in the visiting clubhouse, where initial X-rays on Tatis’ hand were inconclusive about the severity of his injury, the Padres didn’t seem ready to turn down the dial.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • Armor can reduce the severity of the hit and also affect how big the damage is.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Fu also singled out Israel and called for efforts to bring an end to the hostilities.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 23 June 2025
  • Recent Market Performance Since the start of the current Israel-Iran hostilities on June 13, the S&P 500 has been 1.2% lower.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • While VUMs require more testing to establish their true risks to public health, VOIs are explicitly confirmed to have genetic changes that affect virus characteristics like transmissibility and virulence.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2025
  • The results revealed that pla depletion decreases the virulence and increases the length of plague infections in mice.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • The liver serves several vital functions, such as filtering blood, converting food into energy, eliminating wastes, and producing various substances like bile, proteins, and cholesterol.
    Jonathan Purtell, Verywell Health, 13 June 2025
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, the disease begins in the slender tubes that carry digestive bile and is associated with symptoms like abdominal pain, fatigue, fever and night sweats.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • The charges included one count of malice murder and one count of felony murder; three counts of cruelty to children in the first degree; three counts of false imprisonment; three counts of contributing to the dependency of a minor; and three counts of kidnapping.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 19 June 2025
  • The suit, filed this week in Dallas County District court, accuses Gateway Church founder Robert Morris and others of libel, malice, defamation, slander, failure to report, civil conspiracy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and unjust enrichment.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • He’s allowed to feel the frustration and anger at them.
    Eric Thomas, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025
  • The anger of voters is strikingly clear, though, especially for ones who have for so long been loyal to Democrats.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025

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“Mordancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mordancy. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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