thorniness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for thorniness
Noun
  • Quick hits Tigers reliever Kyle Finnegan suffered right groin tightness while warming up during Wednesday's game, and the severity of the injury is unclear.
    Christian Romo, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • While the time can vary based on many circumstances such as the type, severity, and location of the bruise, many bruises last for about two weeks.
    Marisa Garshick, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While VUMs require more testing to establish their true risks to public health, VOIs are explicitly confirmed to have genetic changes that affect virus characteristics like transmissibility and virulence.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2025
  • The diminished virulence that the pathogen evolved in response to more of its hosts dying potentially caused these earlier plague pandemics to fizzle out.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
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“Thorniness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thorniness. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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