relentlessness

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Recent Examples of relentlessness If anything, its attention to the sad textures of teenage life seems to acknowledge that for many young people today, paying attention to their own life might feel futile or too small, given the relentlessness of the news. Greta Rainbow, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025 Just getting away from the stresses, the relentlessness of the job. Ali Rampling, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 Even Marty, one of the nicer guys on display in Coen and Cooke’s cockeyed crime movie, hits on Honey with an annoying relentlessness. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relentlessness
Noun
  • The severity of droughts, flooding, all of that will get worse.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The severity of a sprain depends on how much of a ligament is torn.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the storm moves away, this likelihood decreases.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Investors should brace themselves for significant volatility and the likelihood of considerable losses if market conditions worsen or if the company does not succeed in executing its ambitious growth strategies.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their pro-human vehemence was evident in every quote and frame.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • As the agency’s OK seemed near, the season premiere of South Park on Paramount’s Comedy Central on Wednesday eviscerated Trump – and Paramount’s legal settlement – with a vehemence that’s become increasingly rare.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Mackay and Turner are both excellent, two movie stars who seem totally game to be asked to move with real gruffness.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When faced with Laura’s hostility, what can Cherry do but lose her mind, smash a glass against her head, and tell Daniel that his mother did it?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The conflict between Israel and Palestine was dividing friends, sparking tensions, and fueling rising acts of hostility.
    Rchin Bari, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The harshness of the language and the raw politicking shocked voters.
    Matt Klink, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The bass doesn’t overpower vocals, and the treble avoids harshness.
    Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 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 diminished virulence that the pathogen evolved in response to more of its hosts dying potentially caused these earlier plague pandemics to fizzle out.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025

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“Relentlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relentlessness. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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