authoritativeness

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Noun
  • Hence, all discussion of hypothetical U.S. statehood for Greenland in effect provides credibility to a fake reality meant to intimidate Greenlanders into submission.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Rhode Island required ads to name not only the sponsor but the organization’s top donors so voters can better access the message and its credibility.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Once a determination is made regarding the validity of any allegations, a report is prepared and cases are referred to outside investigatory agencies, including the Attorney General’s Office and county District Attorney offices.
    Peter D'Abrosca, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Last month, Microsoft touted its quantum breakthrough, although some physicists have doubted its validity.
    Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The heavy push towards BEVs has not turned into dominance, and aggressive targets for their sales are no longer expected to come to fruition.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Lee said Nvidia had previously had strong pricing power due to its dominance of the market for graphics processing units, or GPUs, which are essential to powering generative artificial intelligence models, according to MarketWatch (NWSA-5.52%).
    Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Most are due to unnecessary escalation, creating disengagement, authoritative behaviors, arrogance and ego.
    Joao Mendes-Roter, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Musk’s casual Friday attire just shows his arrogance and disrespect for American government.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That economic footprint is matched by political and organizational influence.
    Ronak D. Desai, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • When a 1999 Top 100 list by a gay and lesbian publishing group failed to include Patricia Nell-Warren’s 1974 novel The Front Runner, many readers loudly objected, noting its influence on their own coming-out journeys.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Fortunately, Ruth has an elegant hauteur to call on in these situations.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.
    Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • No matter how over-the-top her subjects were, Gottfried portrayed them without the slightest condescension or mockery.
    Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • These days, Ozick comes in for a different kind of condescension: How can anyone so old be so sublime?
    Linda Hall, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Authoritativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authoritativeness. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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