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Recent Examples of Synonyms for denunciatory
Adjective
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This is objectively true, and even the most virulent Kyle stan cannot object.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2024 -
The best-selling novel (and Apple TV+ series) Lessons in Chemistry recently dramatized the often virulent misogyny that existed in scientific settings; Joy looks at a subtler dynamic, in which the contributions that women played in scientific discovery was downplayed.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Share [Findings] Unaffiliated voters are growing more spiteful toward both Democrats and Republicans.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The end of the JCPOA made a spiteful Iran even more aggressive.—
Ali Vaez,
Foreign Affairs,
8 May 2023
Adjective
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There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
13 Jan. 2025
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With Zuckerberg’s decision to rescind policies barring hateful speech, he’s made clear that distinction is worth the possibility of political clout come Inauguration Day.—
Makena Kelly,
WIRED,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Trump has often been critical of Chicago, which has some of the country’s strongest protections for people in the country without legal status.—
Todd Richmond and Elliot Spagat,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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Besides Obama and Bill Clinton, former President George W. Bush, who has not been outwardly critical of Trump, will be at the swearing-in ceremony.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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While conceding that standard phishing methods, those that typically require threat actors to craft malicious emails that are delivered to a wide audience, are relatively easy for email platforms to detect and block, that’s not the case with this phishless attack.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Alec Baldwin sues New Mexico, claiming malicious prosecution.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The decision, lauded by consumer advocacy groups, comes a full 25 years after scientists at the agency determined that rats fed large amounts of the artificial color additive were much more likely to develop malignant thyroid tumors than rats who weren’t given the food coloring.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Their mother, Noel Mickelson, died in 2016 from sepsis caused by bed sores, and a malignant tumor, according to Shannon Amos.—
Elizabeth Maline,
NBC News,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Many arguments or discussions are often shut down simply because they’re considered unkind, judgy, or not in the undefined spirit of BookTok.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
18 Dec. 2024
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The legal drama is being dumped in less than 50 screens this weekend, an unkind fate for a film critics call a decent programmer.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
2 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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The work ahead will be to encourage Trump’s better instincts, counter his more malign ones, and channel both into something resembling a coherent and constructive grand strategy.—
Charles A. Kupchan,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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Some see an opportunity to take care of all dimensions of the threat—both Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and its malign regional activities—in one fell swoop.—
Richard Haass,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Denunciatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denunciatory. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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