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Recent Examples of truculence Its approach to union organizing activity may not be entirely welcoming, but seems to lack the truculence and hostility shown by retailers such as Starbucks and Amazon. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025 Other international powers are showing even less patience for Israeli truculence. Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024 Government regulation had to be escalated and hundreds of lawsuits had to be filed before the company’s truculence was overcome. Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2024 Musk reacted to McCormick’s ruling with characteristic truculence. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for truculence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truculence
Noun
  • According to her July 2025 report to the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese claimed the U.S. may be ‘liable for the international crime of aggression’ for President Trump's strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
  • Rotating Carriers To Multiple Hotspots USS Nimitz is now operating in the Red Sea to deter further aggression from Iran and its regional proxies.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The new law adds to existing municipal ordinances that forbid animal cruelty or neglect, including leaving a pet in too small of a space or outside in the hot Florida sun.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
  • Miller faces four counts of cruelty to a companion animal and 34 counts of complicity.
    Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Kenya’s biggest cities have been roiled for days by protesters demonstrating against stagnating growth, soaring inequality, and police brutality.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
  • The entire world needs to stand up and condemn the severe incident, which again reveals the brutality of Hamas.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • But these weaknesses stem largely from underfunding and political hostility – not from any intrinsic flaw in the model.
    Sumit Agarwal, The Conversation, 3 July 2025
  • In our experience we were met with outright hostility for our Christian beliefs.
    BJ, Denver Post, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Four years later, an America-first cultural crackdown has freed the Met to cast off the hair shirt of reckoning and celebrate its diverse holdings in a spirit of defiance.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Small acts of defiance are happening in real life, too.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025

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“Truculence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truculence. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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