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Recent Examples of piercingly
Chef Steven Pham is still simmering his signature Northern Vietnamese-style pho ga, which features a soul-piercingly clear broth, tender poached chicken, rice noodles, and a floating raft of fresh herbs.
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Becky Duffett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
The Towode Door Stop Alarm is a budget-friendly, highly effective safety tool that functions as a wedge door stop and a piercingly loud alarm when activated.
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Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2026
In the opening keynote, president of public broadcaster Arte France Bruno Patino provided a bleak yet piercingly precise evaluation of the industry today.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
Perched along the Dalton Highway and north of the Arctic Circle, Coldfoot has virtually no light pollution, piercingly clear winter nights, and a reputation among aurora chasers for its reliable solar shows.
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Sarah Buder,
AFAR Media,
9 Mar. 2026
His lashes are long, the eyes deep-set, large and intense, staring piercingly into you.
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Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
How could the woman who wrote so piercingly about women’s subjugation subjugate herself to not just one but two men?
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Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Becky Duffett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
The Towode Door Stop Alarm is a budget-friendly, highly effective safety tool that functions as a wedge door stop and a piercingly loud alarm when activated.
—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2026
In the opening keynote, president of public broadcaster Arte France Bruno Patino provided a bleak yet piercingly precise evaluation of the industry today.
—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
Perched along the Dalton Highway and north of the Arctic Circle, Coldfoot has virtually no light pollution, piercingly clear winter nights, and a reputation among aurora chasers for its reliable solar shows.
—
Sarah Buder,
AFAR Media,
9 Mar. 2026
His lashes are long, the eyes deep-set, large and intense, staring piercingly into you.
—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
How could the woman who wrote so piercingly about women’s subjugation subjugate herself to not just one but two men?
—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piercingly
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Duenas expected sales to climb sharply in the weeks leading up to the tournament and said his customers are coming from all walks of life, including fans from foreign countries.
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Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes.
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Collecting is often a function of loss, an attempt to save something that might otherwise disappear, as the volume’s final essay poignantly articulates.
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This case makes poignantly clear how much Florida will miss Labarga, the only justice who was not appointed by DeSantis.
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Virality, however, is not the same as long-term brand value, something ALO appears acutely aware of.
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In those first days, the people closest to the disaster felt acutely the absence of any assistance from their own government.
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Overthinking and procrastination are two of the habits people confess to most readily and blame on themselves most harshly, and two of the habits most often misread.
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That can be useful because jurors can be more reluctant to sentence a woman harshly, writes Victor Streib, a law professor at Elon University in North Carolina who has researched the treatment of women on death row.
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Some stocks suffered keenly during the week, falling into oversold territory.
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The deal shows that one of the most influential technology investment firms in Silicon Valley is keenly interested in the networking bottlenecks in building out AI infrastructure.
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After recent forays into darkly psychedelic drone music, the Mexican American producer returns to the dancefloor with an album that fuses techno and guaracha into a throbbing polyrhythmic juggernaut.
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Smart and darkly funny, Shiva Baby already feels like a classic.
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The event was halted after an hour due to fears about her safety, which distressingly encapsulates a tension that the trans Mayan artist has navigated for years.
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The basic themes of Hearst’s life and the novels that dramatize it remain distressingly relevant.
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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.
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Saadawi’s unabashedly political, blackly funny contemporary take on the mythos (superb translated by Jonathan Wright, who captures the wry humor and brooding, ominous rhythms of Saadawi’s dark tale) is, however, a true standout in a very crowded field.
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“Piercingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piercingly. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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