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Adjective
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Although timid at first, Sarah has now let her personality shine.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025 -
Putin played the timid souls of these make-America-weak policymakers like a violin.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Half of the speech is devoted to condemning slavery, its defenders and those who remain silent in its face.—
Frederic J. Fransen,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 July 2025
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Once you’re negatively labeled, even your best work struggles to break through the silent barrier those words create.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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The clinical results released to mark the serum’s 10th anniversary reiterate the reason behind the product’s lasting power: a 23% reduction in fine lines, 28% improvement in hydration, and 43% boost in skin vitality.—
Angela Lei,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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How to find your VO2 max The most accurate way to calculate your VO2 max is in a clinical setting, says Tanayan.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA Today,
13 July 2025
Adjective
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In the new film Hot Milk, the sensual but diffident 20-something Sofia (Emma Mackey) travels with her invalid mother, Rose (Fiona Shaw), to the Mediterranean shores of Spain in search of an experimental cure for the latter’s (possibly hypochondriac) illness.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
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Today, they’re considered all-time greats, geniuses of melody and tension and originators of the diffident, philosophical mode that came to dominate American guitar rock in the new century.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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Guests did not shy from donning some of the designer’s more out-there creations.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
9 July 2025
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Talk about Travis Scott starts just shy of the 1:30 mark.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Judges are people too, and Your Honor amplifies the tensions between personal and professional for Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston), a respected New Orleans judge who learns that his teenage son killed another boy in a traffic collision.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
13 July 2025
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This could be in connection to personal, professional or collaborative connections.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
13 July 2025
Adjective
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Western audiences absorb coverage of militant acts by a narrow segment of the Palestinian population while the intellect and insights of the rest are largely ignored by disinterested media institutions.—
Micah Danney,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2025
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The Marlins took a quick 3-0 lead, and from there, Birdsong looked very much like a green 23-year-old — either distracted or disinterested, but obviously off his game.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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After sharing a meal together, Stahelski, who’s now helmed four chapters involving Keanu Reeves’ taciturn assassin, quickly endorsed Wiseman’s hiring to Lionsgate and producing partner, Thunder Road.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2025
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And Katie, a taciturn woman in her 30s who has run away from her former life following a humiliating breakup, is played with sharp-eyed wariness and a fiery edge by Kate Rose Reynolds.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2025
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“Clubbish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clubbish. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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