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Adjective
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All have long-standing reputations and a superb stock that will meet the requirements of the most demanding connoisseur.—
Felipe Schrieberg,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025 -
That becomes especially useful when dealing with fluctuating frame rates on more demanding games.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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His curls may be a little grayer, but his ultra-expressive face — acrobatic eyebrows in particular — reflects his eternal curiosity and up-for-anything-ness.—
Rebecca Milzoff,
Billboard,
9 June 2025
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But for some reason this particular patch of dead air didn’t leave enough time to let everyone back to their seats before Lin-Manuel Miranda and company took the stage.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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The highly selective program awards about 9,000 scholarships annually in the U.S. and in more than 160 other countries to students, scholars, and professionals in a range of fields.—
Cheyanne Mumphrey,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 June 2025
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Economic uncertainty is pushing many businesses to adopt a more selective approach, extending the hiring process even further.—
Duane Tursi,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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For the discriminating listener, the thousands spent outfitting a vehicle with a top-of-the-line amplifier, speakers, and subwoofers are all for naught if the source signal is a low-quality MP3 or Advanced Audio Coding music file.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Oct. 2010
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If the United States is upset with a country over its human rights abuses, for example, reducing or even cutting off economic and diplomatic ties as punishment risks ceding influence to a less discriminating China.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Dec. 2018
Adjective
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Advertisement Advertisement Anderson has been accused of many things: putting style before substance, being too sardonic as to lack emotionality, leaning too hard into nostalgia, becoming too fastidious for his own good.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
30 May 2025
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In the past several weeks, President Donald Trump, who has never been fastidious about separating public and private business, has been involved in a remarkable number of potential conflicts of interest.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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All told, the specifics of memory and storage drive home that the Mac mini is far more suitable to mainstream users, while the Mac Studio is for a more exacting, professional market that needs those expensive, lofty levels of RAM and storage.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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For the two musical interludes, Gaga was at her most exacting and confrontational.—
Esther Zuckerman,
The Atlantic,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Pets can be pretty picky, especially with their food and water.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
5 June 2025
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There is no such thing as a perfect candidate, so don’t be so darn picky.—
Michelle Jefferson,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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The 55-year-old entertainer has been serving up some spring-ready nail looks in recent weeks, last seen wearing minimalist soap nails with a dainty french tip.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
21 Apr. 2025
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One is a dog, one is a daintier version of Reynolds himself, one is a Lady Deadpool, and another is emblazoned with the green colors and red dragon of the Welsh flag.—
Christian Holub,
EW.com,
29 July 2024
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“Overdemanding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdemanding. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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