beamish

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Recent Examples of beamish Her Dorian is beamish until besmirched. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 That’s not the fault of the beamish, resourceful Ross, who, as a recent Evan Hansen, has experience portraying liars. Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beamish
Adjective
  • Even moderately keen cornering produces body roll and would bring doubtless admonition from the rear seats.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And the all-boffo, all-the-time production is exhausting (which is doubtless why the rare quiet moments stand out).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • The sweat, sure, but also just the indignity of it.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • No one knows for sure who holds the record for the longest pond skim in the world, without an international skim-off.
    Anna Fiorentino, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And over the opening month of this season, Yamamoto’s confident mound presence has been mirrored behind the scenes, the pitcher becoming more vocal in game-planning meetings and assured in his clubhouse demeanor.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Both Roseman and Sirianni were confident that Mukuba could deliver the same blows in the NFL despite being undersized.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The numbers paint a generally positive outlook that, according to these forecasters, should allow the nation to narrowly dodge a slump.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • His spirit is one of life and moving forward and trying to find a way to survive and to thrive and to grow and to be in this positive, progressive state.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Rest assured, the play makes liberal use of the Netflix show’s signature electro-ethereal theme music.
    Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Rest assured, though: Getting inside the heads of Hollywood honchos hasn’t made Rogen more sympathetic to them.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And, in fact, Democrats are winning special elections month after month after month, including most recently a decisive one in Wisconsin earlier this month for the state Supreme Court.
    Isabel Danzis, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • That’s exactly what WWE fans got inside Allegiant Stadium, with a short but sweet bout that ended in decisive fashion when Cargill demolished Naomi with a massive Jaded finisher.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite the downgrade, most analysts covering the stock remain bullish on it.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The stock is tracing out a bullish double bottom (W) pattern and is only 8% below its record high.
    Adam Sarhan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But its guiding principle this time is not idealism but realism, with an unhesitating embrace of national interests and increased recourse to power politics.
    Sarang Shidore, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Proulx is an unhesitating observer of people and places, neither idealizing nor villainizing, but her acuity depends on a certain distance.
    Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023

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“Beamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamish. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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