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Noun
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Meta's approach includes warning screens, sensitivity filters and age restrictions.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025 -
After treatment, mild soreness or sensitivity is common for a few days as the surrounding tissues heal.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If senior figures display rudeness or disrespect, employees may assume that such behavior is acceptable, making selective enforcement seem arbitrary and undermining of trust.—
Andrew Binns,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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With nearly 400 responses recounting long waits for a check to outright rudeness, customers detailed what pushes them from their usual tipping habits to a complete cutoff.—
Darlin Tillery,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to preserve its independence at any cost, stand on its own feet, and firmly resist the excessive demands, aggression, and acts of hostility by foreign powers—including the United States and the Zionist regime.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The message refers to the conflict in Gaza and calls for an end to hostilities.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
15 Sep. 2025
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Viktor Kovalenko, a Ukrainian veteran who produces the Ukraine Decoded Substack, told Newsweek on Monday that there is a high level of animosity between Putin and Zelensky.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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But when the parties are helping organize the animosity, the violence itself can become more institutionalized.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.—
Sable Yong,
TIME,
28 June 2024
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Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2024
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Heading in, Republicans don’t seem eager to echo the antagonism from the right.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Daniel finally gets the full scope of their antagonism, which means their burden is now to convince him of their righteousness.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Both Erica and the Gorn overcame their antipathy.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Heritage and its founder Edwin Feulner are the antipathy of conservativism.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Touchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touchiness. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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