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Recent Examples of jangly
In late April, a group of women with jangly earrings and effervescent energy sat in a beer garden in San Antonio with plastic cups of red wine in front of them.
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Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
With the pounding drops of big-room house and the jangly swing of country, people started calling Bunt.
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Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The Bone Temple is part satisfying triumph, part missed opportunity, and its pluses and minuses bump against one another in jangly discord.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
Even as the gnarled guitar of their early EPs gave way to the jangly jaunts of 2022’s Stumpwork, the band could feel secure in the knowledge that any song featuring Shaw on vocals will sound like a Dry Cleaning song and nothing but.
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Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
9 Jan. 2026
The boogie-woogie vibe instilled by Federici’s jangly piano pegs it as a pool hall hit rather than the headphones-listening and ponderous nature of the original.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
They were inspired by the protean roots of samba, the silky vibe of the bossa nova, and the jangly wave of Brazilian pop-rock known as jovem guarda.
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Ernesto Lechner,
SPIN,
10 Sep. 2024
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
With the pounding drops of big-room house and the jangly swing of country, people started calling Bunt.
—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The Bone Temple is part satisfying triumph, part missed opportunity, and its pluses and minuses bump against one another in jangly discord.
—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
Even as the gnarled guitar of their early EPs gave way to the jangly jaunts of 2022’s Stumpwork, the band could feel secure in the knowledge that any song featuring Shaw on vocals will sound like a Dry Cleaning song and nothing but.
—
Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
9 Jan. 2026
The boogie-woogie vibe instilled by Federici’s jangly piano pegs it as a pool hall hit rather than the headphones-listening and ponderous nature of the original.
—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
They were inspired by the protean roots of samba, the silky vibe of the bossa nova, and the jangly wave of Brazilian pop-rock known as jovem guarda.
—
Ernesto Lechner,
SPIN,
10 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jangly
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Football coverage can also often be dominated by ex-players, bluntly exchanging unnecessarily strident views.
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In a strident, aggressive veto message by Andrew Johnson.
Adjective
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Silver metallic sneakers are in this summer thanks to Bella Hadid.
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Broadly speaking, resource discussions often focus on three categories of asteroid — water-rich carbonaceous asteroids, metallic asteroids rich in iron-nickel alloys, and stony asteroids that contain iron, nickel, and magnesium.
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On shrill winter nights, Moscow’s power is conspicuous, its Orthodox cathedrals and Stalinist high-rises illuminated, though the view falls dim in the autumn and spring, shrouded in sheets of greige.
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The chaos is still an acceptable price to pay for Birney’s expertly offputting performance, a shrill mania that gets increasingly comic over time.
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Because whatever deficiencies this squad might have, it’s backed by a massive, raucous army.
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Yesterday, on a raucous Centre Court, Maya Joint formally announced herself.
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The jangling bleeps and bloops of the arcade game, meanwhile, come to form a score of sorts, a sonic diversion from the real world closing in on Cristian.
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Modesty might actually seem attractive, after the nerve-jangling, always-on-tenterhooks Trump years.
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Scattered over the top were generous pebbles of queso panela, mild, milky and squeaky like halloumi.
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No dedicated dog menu but ask about the Pawty Pack – a squeaky toy and pup-cup.
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At the track’s apex Korten explodes in and out of dissonant broken chords against Mark Shim’s angular saxophone lines, an unexpected development that sneaks up on you thanks to Sorey’s sticky, slowly evolving drumming.
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This is reminding me of watching Slint play a reunion show in 2014 under the I-65 highway at a festival in Louisville, and how simultaneously awesome and cognitively dissonant that experience was.
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The prize, which was auctioned off by Odenkirk, who assumed the role of a hypeman in a top hat and spoke in a raspy voice, included an autographed script of the highest bidder’s favorite episode and an invitation to a live reading of the show for up to three guests.
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My range is so reduced, and the quality of my voice is raspy.
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“Jangly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jangly. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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