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Recent Examples of metallic
The TikTok creator walked the red carpet wearing a metallic dress that hugged her curves and featured a plunging sweetheart neckline.
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Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
Dress it up with nude heels or metallic platforms and accessorize with your favorite sparkly jewelry.
—Rachel Sylvester, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
Fabrications also range from metallic foil-like silver and buttery calfskin with a slight gloss.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2025
Small fragments can cause laceration and punctures to digestive organs, such as the esophagus, stomach or intestines while metallic particles can become lodged in a person's throat and airways.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
Dress it up with nude heels or metallic platforms and accessorize with your favorite sparkly jewelry.
—Rachel Sylvester, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
Fabrications also range from metallic foil-like silver and buttery calfskin with a slight gloss.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2025
Small fragments can cause laceration and punctures to digestive organs, such as the esophagus, stomach or intestines while metallic particles can become lodged in a person's throat and airways.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for metallic
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Alecia lets out a shrill whistle and the shadowy figures of our campmates stand up around the fire, applauding.Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024
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Like, watched it all the way through from the shrill opening filled with obnoxious kids to the leadenly staged slapstick climax?Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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The next day, while the country was still overcome by grief and anger, a song appeared on Indian WhatsApp groups, sung by a strident female voice.Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
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Through its strident positivity, PST ART glorifies speed and risk-taking (not to say recklessness) in the service of progress and discovery.Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
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This impulse is amplified by the decentralized American system—especially its free media and raucous Congress—which empowers voices, including those of diaspora populations, businesses, human rights organizations, and the national security bureaucracy, to advocate for various actions overseas.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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Otherwise, the Ravens celebration that followed the win was neither raucous nor lengthy.Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
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These songs all have a beautiful sadness to them and have a pop mentality, but there is always something dissonant or tense about them at times, musically.Liza Lentini, SPIN, 17 Jan. 2025
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Relationships between objects are often obscure, dissonant.Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Aides at the time blamed Biden’s raspy voice on a cold.Brett Samuels, The Hill, 8 July 2024
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Blige’s voice has become more raspy with time, and instead of finding material that suits it, Good Morning Gorgeous surrounds Blige with loud distractions like drill beats and DJ Khaled ad-libs.Al Shipley, SPIN, 26 Nov. 2024
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Fireworks, something that once filled me with excitement and joy as a child, now felt jarring and wrong.Edward Buckles Jr., TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
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According to Arquette, those jarring moments could happen to anyone of us, at any time.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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His political opponents viewed him as grating, uncooperative, and at times dogmatic.Daniel R. DePetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Find it on Amazon Save Dishes With This Hand Grater This Hand Grater has three grating surfaces, a non-slip base, measurements, and a vegetable peeler.Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
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His personal airplane, a noisy 727, is banned from takeoff and landing between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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The screen rolls out from underneath the keyboard, with a noisy motor taking a few seconds to turn the device into a laptop with a very tall display.Barry Collins, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Metallic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metallic. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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