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Recent Examples of truculence Its approach to union organizing activity may not be entirely welcoming, but seems to lack the truculence and hostility shown by retailers such as Starbucks and Amazon. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025 Other international powers are showing even less patience for Israeli truculence. Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024 Government regulation had to be escalated and hundreds of lawsuits had to be filed before the company’s truculence was overcome. Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2024 Musk reacted to McCormick’s ruling with characteristic truculence. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for truculence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truculence
Noun
  • Correa’s stunning return to Houston is another accentuation of owner Jim Crane’s aggression at the trade deadline and a jolt for a clubhouse that needed it.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The work is a reflection on the extent of unbelievable acts of aggression that exist in times of confrontation, such as the compulsion to kill to retain control.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Conversely, Colum, devastated by his disability, has a pension for cruelty.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 31 July 2025
  • Not to spoil anything, but the message is that the only cure for cruelty is not revenge, but decency.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • For Sarah, eros serves as a powerful conduit for the divine, but the divine is not without brutality nor chaos.
    Terry Nguyen July 23, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
  • President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and their supporters are celebrating the brutality of the 3,000-bed detention facility that was hastily built in the Florida Everglades, one of the harshest natural environments in the United States.
    Time, Time, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Without an end to hostilities, no humanitarian corridor can function safely, Palestinian civilians cannot be reached at scale and the hostages will not return home.
    David Miliband, Time, 29 July 2025
  • The largest synagogue in Judaism’s Reconstructionist movement is moving to cut ties with its denominational body over what its leaders describe as a failure to confront hostility to Israel among affiliated rabbis and rabbinical students.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • When his latest work is once again denied permission by the Ministry of Culture, the censorship pushes him to the edge of defiance.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 25 July 2025
  • For many women, something as simple as buying a bikini becomes an act of defiance.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025

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“Truculence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truculence. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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