beamish

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Recent Examples of beamish Her Dorian is beamish until besmirched. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
  • Lastly, while there is doubtless a tradeoff between construction costs and operations, a smooth operation at the big airport this coming summer — the busiest travel season — sure as heck needs to be a priority.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Add in the doubtless significant number of people under 18 using ChatGPT (who weren't included in the sample at all), and a decent majority of OpenAI's users probably aren't old enough to remember the 20th century firsthand.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Once the game was knotted up at three, Bennett settled down and made sure to keep it that way.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
  • There's quite a bit of variety between the different buildings so be sure to specify and ask questions when booking.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • In…early books, Strout seemed confident that good would eventually prevail, or at least persist.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • If the Leafs take Stenberg, and the Sharks want a defenseman and are confident that the Vancouver Canucks will select McKenna, maybe the two Pacific Division teams can arrange a trade.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • In an interview with WWD, Stéphane de La Faverie, president and chief executive officer, sounded positive and was clearly feeling some additional traction in a slippery consumer landscape.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
  • Although studio Universal had wanted to skip critic screenings, Gunn managed to persuade them otherwise, reasoning that some positive reviews might sell a few extra tickets.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • Ramaswamy feels so assured of gliding through the May 5 primary that his campaign has all but ignored his GOP opponent so far.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • City were only two points off the top, but Arsenal had looked more assured.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • These results were championed as the country’s official victory over the virus and a decisive win for those advocating for digital vaccination credential systems.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • After scoring a decisive goal in Buffalo’s series-clinching win against Boston in Game 6, Benson was all over the ice in the first period against Montreal.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • Akingbola plays astronaut Dr Henry Evans, in charge of the nuclear reactor that sustains life on the moon, while Fee plays astronaut Dr Declan McAllister, whose bullish demeanor puts him at loggerheads with Claire.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 May 2026
  • Ted Turner — the bullish founder of CNN and a suite of other cable channels, not to mention a bison steakhouse, a non profit designed to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and an international sports competition — died Wednesday at the age of 87.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 May 2026
Adjective
  • The film doesn’t idealize the president as a man of unhesitating certainties.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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“Beamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamish. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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