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Recent Examples of spiny Lurking in spiny armor below the waves, sea urchin is a luscious and briny delicacy. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 June 2025 Leatherbacks have spiny papillae lining their mouth and esophagus. Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 6 June 2025 Some of these spiny characters, such as the field thistle, are native nectar sources for hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2025 This medium-sized toad, found in the Khumbu region, is distinguished by its large, flat head and spiny skin. Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for spiny
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Adjective
  • Speaking with director Joe Johnston, Oka explained the two most difficult things to simulate digitally at the time were human skin and water.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • Ullmann is the daughter of the late Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and the Norwegian actor Liv Ullmann, and specifics of her childhood are not difficult to locate.
    Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • The tougher policy changes are adding to the minors’ trauma, advocates say.
    Nicol León, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
  • Stellantis' loss, versus a 5.6 billion euro net profit a year earlier, underscores the tough challenges for new CEO Antonio Filosa, who was appointed in May after a disastrous performance in the company's crucial U.S. market in 2024 forced the ouster of former boss Carlos Tavares.
    Giulio Piovaccari, Freep.com, 21 July 2025
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  • In Cisco’s 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark, 64% of global respondents worry about inadvertently exposing sensitive information through AI tools, even as nearly half admit to feeding personal data into them.
    Boris Dzhingarov, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • And new privacy legislation in Senate Bill 1295 requires collectors of sensitive data to notify consumers if their personal data is being used to train large language models.
    Angela Eichhorst, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • By July, deer antlers can be spotted in full velvet, which is when the antlers are covered in a soft, hairy skin due to the rapid growth phase of the bones.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 12 July 2025
  • Visitors may notice that Ziggy is missing the hairy end segment of her tail known as the tail tuft.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • But just as she’s dragged back into the spotlight, her body begins to stage a quiet, sticky rebellion into a raw, absurd, and disturbingly relatable reckoning with art, womanhood, and the sheer chaos of being human.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 July 2025
  • Mercedes has this just about right, even with optional 22-inch AMG wheels shod with sticky high-performance Pirellis, as my test car was.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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  • That said, the negative reputation surrounding the last lines in Jones’ thorny adaptation — a punch-up from Ellison’s original text that’s meaner and more sexist, no doubt — seems outsized.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
  • However, women's health tech and privacy is a thorny issue.
    Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is especially problematic because compensation in financial services is reliant on bonuses, commissions and decision-making power and these rewards don’t often trickle down.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • For Gathegi, the shocking moment underscored age-old problematic tropes.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • The situation is even more complicated if short skirts are part of the equation.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
  • The distinction between a studio apartment and a one-bedroom apartment is quite simple, but understanding why the former can be a better option than the latter is slightly more complicated.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 21 July 2025

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“Spiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiny. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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