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Recent Examples of metallic
Others use the Joy-Con as a mouse to swing wildly at a golf ball or dodge falling metallic obstacles.
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Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
Adding swirls or blobs of metallic silver is a fun way to play with texture and color.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 June 2025
The metallic leather cap toe and stiletto heel offered a clean contrast to the transparent PVC sides — an effect that mirrored the gown’s interplay of opaque velvet and sheer lace.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 June 2025
The Cyber option, featured in pictures throughout this review, has metallic green accents and a few keycaps with a cyborg aesthetic.
—Francisco Lahoz, PC Magazine, 31 May 2025
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Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
Adding swirls or blobs of metallic silver is a fun way to play with texture and color.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 June 2025
The metallic leather cap toe and stiletto heel offered a clean contrast to the transparent PVC sides — an effect that mirrored the gown’s interplay of opaque velvet and sheer lace.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 June 2025
The Cyber option, featured in pictures throughout this review, has metallic green accents and a few keycaps with a cyborg aesthetic.
—Francisco Lahoz, PC Magazine, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for metallic
Adjective
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The males climb up trees and produce their shrill songs en masse, using muscles to vibrate a rigid part of their exoskeletons called tymbals.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This strident belief that languages shape our thinking is referred to as the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which is also informally known as Whorfianism, see my detailed discussion at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Some strident Trump supporters did greet his elevation with scorn.—
Ned Temko,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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What To Know Videos on social media showed the group of drag artists walking into the theatre before the show began and being met with raucous applause.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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Its aesthetic approach seldom lives up to its gestures toward camp as a guiding principle or its weighty themes (except, perhaps, in its surprisingly raucous final act).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Roberts brought in dissonant strings and brass for the K2 battle droids.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
29 May 2025
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Less an adaptation than a dissonant echo of Carrollian logic, Alice is a marvel of handmade horror that channels the darker currents of adolescent imagination and, not unlike Us, treats the inner life of a child not as an innocent refuge but as haunted terrain.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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In the new TikTok, Siwa shows Hughes the video, which caught flack from haters for her raspy voice and unabashed confidence.—
Jack Irvin,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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With his almost 7-foot stature, visible skin lesions, heavy cloak, raspy voice, and big ol' broom mustache, the actor is virtually unrecognizable in the film's final cut.—
Emlyn Travis Published,
EW.com,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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In its early days, it was reviled by some critics as a jarring intrusion on the genteel Georgian symmetry of the square.—
Mark Landler,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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However, this is still a major feat for Adolescence, which had no major star power attached to its jarring story about a 13-year-old boy (played by breakout Owen Cooper) accused of stabbing a female classmate to death after being drawn into the online manosphere.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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The Miz, often derided as a wrestler for his flamboyant and grating onscreen personality, is few people’s idea of a WrestleMania main-event talent, so his win makes the 27th event stand out as kind of an oddity.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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His political opponents viewed him as grating, uncooperative, and at times dogmatic.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The sheer volume of content created far outpaces what audiences can consume, leading to a noisy, crowded digital ecosystem.—
Luca Brinkhues,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Its lineup interspersed noisy no wave groups like Pop Music Fever Dream and Pure Adult, upbeat pop-rock performances from bands like Um, Jennifer?—
Grace Robins-Somerville,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2025
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“Metallic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metallic. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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