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Noun
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Trump had won by fifty-three points there in 2016, and Greene’s paranoid pugnacity seemed like a good fit, if voters could stomach an outsider.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026 -
That does not mean his pugnacity has dimmed.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For Republicans, the primary has become a struggle over how to keep Texas red, with their party weighing steadiness, combativeness and reinvention in the post-Trump era.—
Gromer Jeffers Jr.
Political,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Jan. 2026
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For those reading the tea leaves about the level of combativeness that next year’s talks could bring, some members of the strike-era leadership are back in 2026.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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His reckless decision to escalate the aggression and number of immigration agents is a causal factor, regardless of the outcome of an investigation into this tragic death.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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When the music dissolves into an ethereal, ambient soundscape and a psychedelic, spiritual journey, that’s where finding the right amount of energy, aggression, violence, and grief, to support the story and to explain things that the dialog couldn’t, was the most challenging part.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2026
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Advocates of trade barriers against China cite the country’s poor human rights record and its belligerence toward neighbors.—
Marc Joffe,
Oc Register,
16 Dec. 2025
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On social media, Tan was pugilistic to the point of belligerence, casting his political enemies as corrupt malefactors responsible for the despoliation of his beloved city.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Those who remember the truculence of those rough-and-tumble Ducks know how much of a sacrifice that was.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
6 June 2025
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Trump’s truculence has infuriated Canadians, leading many to cancel U.S. vacations, refuse to buy American goods and possibly even to vote early.—
Rob Gillies,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Trump may get away with this approach; his unpredictability, and Netanyahu’s bellicosity, will temper the mullahs’ atomic ambitions for now.—
Ray Takeyh,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Covino’s facility with his ensemble is to draw out their inherent screen qualities, from Marvin’s ebullience, to Arjona’s energetic feistiness, to Johnson’s unflappable cool.—
Katie Walsh,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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Drescher brought greater visibility and idiosyncratic feistiness to SAG-AFTRA, but can that momentum be sustained?—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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Davion Mitchell’s defense and aggressiveness?—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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That aggressiveness defined December.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Pugnaciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pugnaciousness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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