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Noun
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Cozy sweaters and fireplaces and a certain crispness in the air.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025 -
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
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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In contrast, the abruptness of Kimmel’s suspension has sent shock waves throughout Hollywood.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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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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“Tautness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tautness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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