beamish

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Recent Examples of beamish Her Dorian is beamish until besmirched. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 That’s not the fault of the beamish, resourceful Ross, who, as a recent Evan Hansen, has experience portraying liars. Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beamish
Adjective
  • Even moderately keen cornering produces body roll and would bring doubtless admonition from the rear seats.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And the all-boffo, all-the-time production is exhausting (which is doubtless why the rare quiet moments stand out).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • Not sure a sour milk tomato combo would go well in a caprese salad.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2025
  • The Cheever review may be my last, but who knows for sure?
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, of the 98% of HR professionals surveyed by Capterra who plan to use software and algorithms to reduce labor costs, only half are confident that the technology will make unbiased recommendations.
    C200, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • And for those stunning backless dresses that demand a bra-free look, nipple covers are your secret weapon for confident coverage.
    Caitlyn Martyn may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Among Republicans, the gap is a 19% positive to a 43% negative.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 9 July 2025
  • The young wingers are the latest hope for an Edmonton player to win the award, with positive indicators everywhere.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • What’s preventing people from feeling more assured about their future health?
    Manulife Singapore, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Watch the trailer: Linklater shoots all over Paris on the same locations Godard used, setting up familiar scenes from the movie but showing the freedom and lust for cinema that defined the New Wave and Godard’s assured but revolutionary style.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • The second set ultimately went all the way to a tiebreak, and after trading two mini-breaks apiece, the British pair gained a decisive two-point advantage, aided by a Pel double-fault.
    Leon Imber, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • The idea that no one was born inherently superior, that status wasn’t tied to birth but to citizenship and shared rights, was a radical break in human history and a decisive rejection of Old World European ideology.
    Jared Nordlund, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Now, however, Democrats are feeling bullish about their chances in 2026 following a high-stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race in which liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated by double digits a conservative backed by President Donald Trump and Musk, the president's billionaire adviser.
    Lawrence Andrea, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025
  • The Resilience of Luxury Amid Uncertainty Despite headlines of macroeconomic volatility, Jennifer is bullish on luxury travel.
    Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • But its guiding principle this time is not idealism but realism, with an unhesitating embrace of national interests and increased recourse to power politics.
    Sarang Shidore, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Proulx is an unhesitating observer of people and places, neither idealizing nor villainizing, but her acuity depends on a certain distance.
    Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023

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“Beamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamish. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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