snappishness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snappishness
Noun
  • Quantum machines of today are prone to errors, have a restricted size range, and are sensitive to perturbations in their surrounding environment.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • To identify the quantum states of a particle, scientists need to isolate it from perturbations arising from its surroundings.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The result can mean fatigue, irritability and diminished mental focus for the individual tasked with working in the heat.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The irritability or walking into a room only to forget why seconds later.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Additional safety features include door-opening alerts to warn of cyclists or pedestrians, cabin occupancy detection to prevent children or pets from being left inside, and a 360-degree camera for easier parking in tight spaces.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But for the most part, they had been used for relatively small tasks—caring for a pet after its owner died, or funding the management of a piece of property, or a cemetery plot.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That’s enough to pique studios’ interest.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Hobert wanted to pique listeners’ interest.
    Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Her plaintive denials on screen are robbed of any credibility by an inescapable sense of overwhelming resentment.
    Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • McCarthy was having some trouble doing so to start this game, as the Bears’ defense, led by new coordinator Dennis Allen, was drawing up the right pressures to fluster the young signal caller.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Still, Counsell and the Cubs have kept their sights set on continuing to play well enough to hang onto a playoff spot while not getting in trouble for looking past the regular season series that are still in front of them.
    Jared Wyllys, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, the Tigers managed two top-10 upsets.
    Brady Shanahan, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • With multiple overtime games, upsets and close calls, Week 2 provided a lot of reasons to shake up this week’s edition of The Athletic 136, just not at the top.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Eileen’s imminent arrival is made even more dramatic when a younger woman named Thea (Imogen Poots) turns up at Hedda’s door in a state of distress.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
  • However, without Chinese demand, this abundant supply threatens to further depress prices and worsen farmers’ financial distress.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Snappishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snappishness. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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