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Recent Examples of unpleasantness
And that’s just the unpleasantness of chewing on leathery supermarket steaks, because accidentally tucking into raw chicken is more serious.
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Sal Vaglica, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
Retrograde Mercury picks a fight with Uranus, ruler of weirdness, provoking an eruption of unexpected unpleasantness in your life, and then the Sun partners up with Mercury in a temporary flare of stubborn self-delusion.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024
The big picture: No entrepreneur enjoys fundraising, but there's a special unpleasantness for generative AI founders who need billions of dollars to train their models.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
Twice during the approximately 90-minute session of filibustering, chaotic press questioning, and overall unpleasantness, the microphone feedback sent shudders through the hearts of the some 100 reporters packed into a sweaty room.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
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Sal Vaglica, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
Retrograde Mercury picks a fight with Uranus, ruler of weirdness, provoking an eruption of unexpected unpleasantness in your life, and then the Sun partners up with Mercury in a temporary flare of stubborn self-delusion.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024
The big picture: No entrepreneur enjoys fundraising, but there's a special unpleasantness for generative AI founders who need billions of dollars to train their models.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
Twice during the approximately 90-minute session of filibustering, chaotic press questioning, and overall unpleasantness, the microphone feedback sent shudders through the hearts of the some 100 reporters packed into a sweaty room.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpleasantness
Noun
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Brianna seems to swing between two moods: intense enthusiasm, intense repugnance.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.—
Salam Fayyad,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2024
Noun
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The Rockies, continuing their road to baseball infamy, had five hits, struck out 10 times, and tumbled to a 21-71 record.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
9 July 2025
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Their names mononymously live in infamy: Darko and Bargnani.—
Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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But to Muzio’s point, terrestrial birds use water repellency, too.—
Ian Rose,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 June 2025
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Muzio was lead author of a 2024 study published in the Journal of Avian Biology, based on his PhD research, that reviewed water repellency in bird feathers.—
Ian Rose,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 June 2025
Noun
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While Israel has every right to defend itself and respond to the atrocities of Oct. 7th, nothing can justify the horrors currently committed in Gaza.—
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen,
Time,
7 July 2025
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Some three decades after the genocide in Srebrenica, there are several early warning signs and risk factors indicating the serious risk of atrocity crimes in the region.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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“Unpleasantness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpleasantness. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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