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Recent Examples of gnarly
The big picture: Any such process would be pretty gnarly.
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Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Pickett left the game during the third quarter after taking a gnarly hit to the side from the Cowboys' defense that reaggravated a rib injury.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Despite a few gnarly images of impalement, Evans’s Dracula is too overloaded with sad-boy backstory to have any bite, and the movie’s attempt at a tragic-hero plot falls flat.
—Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
The movie also inspired many Halloween costumes, with fans dressing as Elisabeth, Sue, or even the body horror monstrosity that emerges as the substance begins causing gnarly side effects.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Pickett left the game during the third quarter after taking a gnarly hit to the side from the Cowboys' defense that reaggravated a rib injury.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Despite a few gnarly images of impalement, Evans’s Dracula is too overloaded with sad-boy backstory to have any bite, and the movie’s attempt at a tragic-hero plot falls flat.
—Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
The movie also inspired many Halloween costumes, with fans dressing as Elisabeth, Sue, or even the body horror monstrosity that emerges as the substance begins causing gnarly side effects.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gnarly
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This underscores an ugly truth as to why California’s housing is grossly and unnecessarily expensive, and in short supply.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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An ugly opt in: If there is no trade by Feb. 6, Butler then regains a degree of leverage with the right to invoke his $52.4 million player option next season.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2025
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Rust is a big deal, as is the fact that many Panteras have been mangled by previous owners bestowing hideous enhancements (think bad celebrity plastic surgery) on otherwise desirable cars.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
17 Jan. 2025
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And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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My TikTok really blew up somewhere between my videos taste-testing a really disgusting medication and my series about dating.—
Brooke Eby,
People.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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Billions Of Jellyfish Wash Up On Beach By Jess Thomson Science Reporter 1 A plague of bizarre and disgusting balls that have washed up along popular beaches in Australia have been found to contain fecal bacteria.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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What could possibly motivate someone in these hellish circumstances to keep digging, night after night, hoping against hope?—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2025
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This catastrophe, like some hellish game of whack-a-mole, hit dangerously, and literally, close to home.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
22 Jan. 2025
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His name has been cursed on the streets of Sacramento, read off a loathsome strip of paper tucked under the windshield wiper: Grant Nakamura.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
4 Jan. 2025
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Indy’s reverence for art was hardly shared by the Nazis, who in the game are most notably represented by a loathsome archaeologist nemesis called Emmerich Voss.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Indian stocks appear to be recovering from their horrid start to the year.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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For a while now, it’s seemed those were the first words of the incoming year after a particularly horrid annum.—
Brenda Looper,
arkansasonline.com,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Talbot’s reluctant transformation into the title monster and Jack Pierce’s special-effects makeup remain iconic, responsible for the dominant cultural perception of how a werewolf looks and feels — even as cinematic werewolves have become beastlier in the decades since.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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Asking Eric: That letter was about me, the beastly wife Asking Eric: That letter was about me, the beastly wife Kurtenbach: The 49ers are battered beyond recognition.—
Joseph Dycus,
The Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2024
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Garvey’s legacy has been complicated, especially due to his sometimes hateful and violent rhetoric against Jews, white people, Catholics, and other groups.—
Brady Knox,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
19 Jan. 2025
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The settlement, announced by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, requires Rutgers to take a series of actions to combat discrimination on campus after 400 reports of hateful incidents on campus were filed between July 2023 and June 2024.—
Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
16 Jan. 2025
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