hair-trigger

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Recent Examples of hair-trigger Microsoft has refined every aspect of this controller and added some great new additions like adjustable-tension thumbsticks, even shorter hair-trigger locks, USB-C, and Bluetooth connectivity. Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2024 The building is infamously stubborn, with decades-old antibodies on hair-trigger alert for anything too radical. Colin Demarest, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024 For all its Formula One credentials, for all its flashy virility and hair-trigger handling, the McLaren also sets a new supercar standard for inner peace. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012 Other than that explosive, hair-trigger temper evidenced above. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024 Meanwhile, Morrissey ordered more tests to determine whether Baldwin’s gun had a hair-trigger, as the defense team suggested. Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024 Granted, two blips don’t make a trend, even in the hair-trigger world of contemporary Web journalism. Michael Cieply, Deadline, 1 July 2024 Explain your concerns about the man’s hair-trigger temper and your worry that her child could be caught in the middle of one of his violent episodes — or injured or killed if his fury is aimed directly at the child. Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024 Garland’s button-pushing feature seems all too plausible given the climate of hair-trigger anger and bitterness in which America exists today. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hair-trigger
Adjective
  • An allergy occurs when the body recognizes safe substances as dangerous, causing a hypersensitive immune reaction.
    Daniel More, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This new immunity might also have had a downside in the form of allergies that come with a hypersensitive immune system.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Whitney Fields, 38, from Austin, was fed up with contacts scratching her supersensitive eyes.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.
    James Mackintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
Adjective
  • The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
  • These young ideas rarely do — and the invaluable lesson that students glean from that realization will be lost forever if administrators cut them off at the knees by continuing to appease oversensitive cry-bullies whose antics threaten these vital sandboxes.
    Brian Anderson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
Adjective
  • Sometimes, help is needed to find the precise location to avoid excess digging in the roadway, and to minimize the inconvenience to the residents in the area.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The manufacturing process of the DMA range begins with taking precise silicone ear impressions of the customer’s ears.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Hair-trigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hair-trigger. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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