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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlyrical
Adjective
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As fiction films do something analogous to what is done in prose forms like the novel and the short story, so nonfiction films can have a broad choice of nonfiction literary models.—
Susan Sontag,
Vogue,
26 Oct. 2025 -
Teach them how to package thinking as IP, not just prose.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Judge Sara Ellis has listened to hours of testimony from citizens' accounts of jarring encounters with federal agents.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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Throw in the six sacks the Titans defense secured and the numbers get even more jarring.—
Nick Suss,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The duo moved around notes to create a sound that was dissonant, amplifying the disgusting effect.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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But Roofman, which Cianfrance also co-wrote, was clearly intended to be lighter fare and instead ends up in this dissonant in-between space tonally.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There's a lot of harsh words and harsh things that get said about people.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Applying it at the base of the plant before the first frost can protect the roots from harsh cold and keep the soil from freezing.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
29 Mar. 2024
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For sixteen hours a week, Valentine hopes to share some melody in a place that, for some, can feel inharmonious.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
24 July 2021
Adjective
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Those songs remind Omara of real people and real events, political interludes whose senselessness and brutality have left unmusical lacunae in her life.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
18 Dec. 2023
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His parents were unmusical Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran various businesses with mixed success.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
3 Oct. 2019
Adjective
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As an experienced home chef myself, these 10 picks under $30 have saved me hours chopping vegetables, struggling with pesky jars, and grating cheese.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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The scale of that tragedy may be what makes Harris’s complaints seem so petty, however well founded many of them may be, and her deflection of responsibility so grating.—
Amy Davidson Sorkin,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Spanberger and Sherrill should, and will, face strident calls from their LGBTQ+ constituents to go further in their support for trans people of all ages, and to not let misinformation and propaganda cloud their decisionmaking while in office.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
6 Nov. 2025
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Newsom’s anti-energy agenda has been forceful, strident and clear from his first days in the governor’s mansion.—
Will Oneill,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Unlyrical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlyrical. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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