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Noun
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This heat sensitivity forced Goldie toward the forensic study of cold volcanoes.—
Annie Proulx,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025 -
Now, that same team at the University of Barcelona has described the underlying mechanism for these individual differences in music reward sensitivity.—
Jay Kakade
August 10,
New Atlas,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There are times when what appears to be rudeness or laziness could stem from personal struggles or stress.—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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That rudeness did not go unnoticed, and on Swag, Justin is still airing out their arguments.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
Noun
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There is a clear correlation between being the victim of hostility and suffering from negative mental health or even physical health.—
Jo Causon,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Time and again the president has expressed optimism after speaking with Putin about winding down the hostilities.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This widespread animosity presents ongoing challenges for prison management and raises serious concerns about the safety and well-being of those in BOP’s custody.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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By taking away gaming as a form of punishment, parents take away their kid’s social lifeline, and in turn create animosity in the parent-child relationship.—
Cyndy Etler,
Hartford Courant,
28 July 2025
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Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.—
Sable Yong,
TIME,
28 June 2024
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Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Such anti-social behavior, such as not being fully dressed on the streets of Spanish or French towns, particularly in high tourist season, can only fuel the antagonism felt by locals towards the multitude of tourists who arrive in Europe every summer.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Instead, and contrary to China’s wishes, the war has further entrenched great-power antagonisms among China, Russia, the United States, and Europe.—
Da Wei,
Foreign Affairs,
29 July 2025
Noun
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Heritage and its founder Edwin Feulner are the antipathy of conservativism.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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But vaccine mandates during the pandemic sowed fierce antipathy towards the technology, leading to widespread public opposition.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Touchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touchiness. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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