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Recent Examples of scabrous
Lamar mirrors Nas’s slow build to a scabrous eruption, followed by exhaustion.
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Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Is this Scott redoing American Gangster as a grand Italian tragedy, or scabrous comedy about a family undone by their ineptitude and excess?
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
Jacobs wrote the script with these three actors in mind, which was perhaps shocking news to each of them, who play scabrous women who locate the worst characteristics of each other and then blow them up into throwdown fights.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
At nearly three hours, the anthology film was divisive: Some hailed its scabrous take on human nature as brilliant, and others derided it as bloated.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 May 2024
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Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Is this Scott redoing American Gangster as a grand Italian tragedy, or scabrous comedy about a family undone by their ineptitude and excess?
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
Jacobs wrote the script with these three actors in mind, which was perhaps shocking news to each of them, who play scabrous women who locate the worst characteristics of each other and then blow them up into throwdown fights.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
At nearly three hours, the anthology film was divisive: Some hailed its scabrous take on human nature as brilliant, and others derided it as bloated.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scabrous
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Rolling off the treble knob helps a little, but even dialed back all the way, that upper-mids/low-treble range remains troublesome.—
Mark Knapp,
PC Magazine,
1 Apr. 2026
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And the struggles up front affected what was already troublesome quarterback play after Conner Harrell’s knee injury in Week 4.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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On the other hand, the potential to solve mankind’s most vexing problems is tantalizing.—
G. Allen Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Mar. 2026
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The most recent one, starting in November 2022, saw Iger confronting vexing issues like AI, labor unrest and the need to lay off thousands of workers amid sweeping industry consolidation.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The federal vexatious litigator statute allows the court to impose sanctions on a case by case basis for vexatious conduct.—
Jack Greiner,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Feb. 2026
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Decades later, he was declared a vexatious litigant by the High Court, Federal Court and Queensland Supreme Court, a label that barred him from filing any more claims.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
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Across the Rockies and beyond, many of our favorite mountains were haunted by unseasonably warm spikes and stubborn weather patterns that shut out snow for weeks on end.—
Kristen Geil,
Outside,
31 Mar. 2026
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For stubborn blockages, a plumber’s snake can help break things loose.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
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Then there were the ghoulish figures of revolutionary adventurers, the Mexican painter with two pistols in his belt, the men who were carving themselves careers out of these troublous times.—
John Dos Passos,
National Review,
28 Sep. 2020
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The shrinking world As birth rates fall, the shrinking of a nation’s population is often worrisome for political elites, who tend to see a large population as a source of power.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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The longer the fighting and shipping disruptions last, the worse and more worrisome the cumulative impact becomes, and the more plausible the initial alarmist views about $200 crude oil and stagflation begin to seem.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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Then set aside time to file electronically, use tax software or meet with a professional if your finances are more complex.—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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In addition to the waste from duplication, the DA has noted that the new unit could threaten complex cases involving coordination with the state attorney general and end up prematurely settling cases that are part of larger investigations.—
Adam Summers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Nov. 2024
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“Scabrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scabrous. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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