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Noun
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His ball striking regained its crispness, the putter warmed, and his scores finally reflected the hours of unseen work.—
Zach Sweet,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025 -
Half-liters and even smaller mugs ensure that every pour stays at its most refreshing, honoring the lager’s core promise of crispness.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The rapidity and the terseness of the onscreen action leaps from scene to scene, from event to event, from one salient point to the next, with nothing incidental in between, nothing revealing anything besides what directly elucidates the story as Polanski chooses to tell it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Tengbjerg, a fifty-one-year-old former pro soccer player from Denmark, is fit and trim, with a mischievous, no-nonsense brusqueness not generally associated with massage therapists.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Soliman is known as an elegant dresser, but his apartment was in bachelor-pad disarray, a reflection of his long hours at the hospital and the abruptness of his detention, said his friends, also clerics.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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So Gonzales and the partners depending on Strength CTIP, which was designed as a five-year project, were shocked by the abruptness with which the USAID funding was cut off earlier this year.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Tautness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tautness. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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