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Adjective
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Those who knew the couple told the Herald there were no glaring red flags.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026 -
But the drop in shot attempts is most glaring — and the most damning indictment of Brown’s new offense.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Their spectacular launch Wednesday evening marked the first piloted moonshot since the end of the Apollo program 53 years ago.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Today on the show, the Planet Money book’s main author Alex Mayyasi joins us to take an audio world tour of spectacular public goods, one whimsical postcard at a time.—
Darian Woods,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Thoreau can be a tough read, [especially] Walden, with all that florid 19th-century prose.—
Thor Christensen,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Early in 2024, taggers began turning its skyscrapers into canvases for florid graffiti art.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Having undergone an extensive 2024 renovation, each of the 259 rooms (including 42 suites) are bright and airy, with textures and colors inspired by the Canadian landscape.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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Beyer, who has a warm smile and bright-pink glasses, did not hide her satisfaction.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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So the Armstrong team employed a series of tests involving fancy scales and gently tipping the capsule.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
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Our toilets are fancy outhouses, with all waste being transported off the continent.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
29 Mar. 2026
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The electricity of this Ivanov can sometimes give it a lurid, Frankenstein-ish quality, and the unabashed intensity works.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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While there’s nothing particularly distinctive stylistically or otherwise about her investigative storytelling here, the film pulls us into its narrative quest, avoiding the more lurid external trappings of standard true-crime entertainment.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Illinois and Chicago are high-tax, big-promise blue strongholds with long, tawdry histories of waste, fraud, patronage, insider deals and blatant corruption.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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And there’s something offensively tawdry that all of this is in mere service of extracting rent.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
12 Mar. 2026
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One floor underground is a labyrinth of snazzy, high-tech equipment designed to bio-hack, educate and optimize performance.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Apr. 2026
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With a snazzy woodgrain finish, HP's new line of OmniDesk towers harkens back to an older era of computing on the outside while delivering modern-age components and performance.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Overbright.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overbright. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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