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Recent Examples of reptilian
How did reptilian things that looked something like crocodiles get to the Caribbean islands from South America millions of years ago?
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Ashley Belanger – May 16, ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
Layered silver leaf and natural pigments create a textured, almost reptilian finish, designed to give off the sense of the film’s prehistoric creatures.
—Matthew Catellier, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Your heart beats faster, adrenaline is released and the most reptilian part of your brain takes over your the executive functioning of your brain.
—Janice Marturano, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The tuatara of New Zealand, a spiny reptilian relic, can outlive generations of researchers studying it.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Ashley Belanger – May 16, ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
Layered silver leaf and natural pigments create a textured, almost reptilian finish, designed to give off the sense of the film’s prehistoric creatures.
—Matthew Catellier, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Your heart beats faster, adrenaline is released and the most reptilian part of your brain takes over your the executive functioning of your brain.
—Janice Marturano, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The tuatara of New Zealand, a spiny reptilian relic, can outlive generations of researchers studying it.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reptilian
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The goat dung remedy The most repulsive recipe, from an 11th-century text, offered the following tip for chest pain.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Tim’s family trauma, while prompting some delightfully repulsive SFX, seems to exist only for that reason, or to give the film an additional whiff of dread.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
31 July 2025
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How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?—
Daniel Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Oct. 2022
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These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2022
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Kruse and her co-conspirators are now on their fourth different set of lawyers in this dispute, and this is a disgusting publicity stunt by new counsel, as evidenced by the fact that the complaint and press release were sent to the press before the complaint was served.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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The series sets the various human and humanoid segments of its cast on a direct course with the distinctly inhuman alien flora and fauna on the ship – there are some inventive little monsters aboard, disgusting and harrowing in their own special ways – to great effect.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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In Washington until recently, Dan Snyder as an NFL owner of repugnant reputation.—
Greg Cote
August 5,
Miami Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
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The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
29 July 2025
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And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 June 2025
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Covino on the other hand plays Paul with a dash of loathsome rich guy energy, that feels like the polar opposite of Carey’s mild nature.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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As stated earlier, there may not be anything more detestable to the Commanders' faithful than former Cowboys.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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The film’s shadowy conspirators provide viewers with villains at once detestable and comfortingly familiar.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Nov. 2020
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The murder of 1,200 people, including 36 children, in a surprise attack by a terrorist group was an abominable crime.—
Alia Brahimi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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So what better time for the abominable long-drive drill?—
Samuel McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
28 July 2025
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The nonprofit’s promotional ads were on social media including Facebook, where it was met with some explicitly hateful comments aimed at the LGBTQ community, Carolina Theatre spokesman Jared Misner said.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Aug. 2025
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They were targeted, hateful attempts to intimidate and silence members of our community.—
David Ferrara,
The Enquirer,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Reptilian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reptilian. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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