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Noun
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Maybe that’s why, compared with some other kinds of nitpickers, pop critics can seem especially extraneous.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Your relentless faultfinder—everybody has one—is quick to judge, minimize your accomplishments or demote you to an underdog.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
12 Apr. 2021
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There are unanswered overtures from the choir’s pianist Horner (Robert Emms), a soft, vulnerable young man whose conscientious-objector status renders him a fellow outsider.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
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When Kimberly and her family leave the New Jersey suburbs under dubious circumstances, Kimberly reevaluates her life while dealing with her hypochondriac mother, alcoholic father, scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and her first love.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Mae was a hoarder and a severe hypochondriac, who, despite Christian Science’s stricture against traditional medicine, took barbiturates daily for anxiety.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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That sensibility is countered by Dina’s, who plays the romantic foil to Liberty’s pessimist.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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Worries are particularly high about companies in the artificial-intelligence industry, where pessimists see echoes of the 2000 dot-com bubble that imploded.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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Underneath the coat, Davis wore a gray V-neck sweater over a white crewneck tee (a classic winter style move all the cool girls are making), but the real kicker?—
Eva Thomas,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
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With last year’s Gophers kicker Brady Denaburg done, Sunderland will compete with redshirt freshman Daniel Jackson and others for kicking duties next season.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
7 Jan. 2026
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The mood just feels a little defeatist right now.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Such means of interpretation, according to a killjoy like Bellow, reduces the complexity, interiority, and negative capability of literature into the work of a cryptologist trying to crack a code, of an occultist parsing scripture for hidden meanings.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Dec. 2025
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Not surprisingly, the overwhelming response from readers told me to stop being a killjoy.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
2 Dec. 2025
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“Nagger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nagger. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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