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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touchiness
Noun
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Imagine living within the confines of four walls mostly in silence because of brain fog and sound sensitivity.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025 -
Now, researchers at OHSU have developed a blood test that can identify early-stage pancreatic cancer with high sensitivity and specificity.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Another perspective is offered by a piece on LinkedIn, which examines the rise in public displays of rudeness and the factors contributing to this trend.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
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Even Sam, who hated conflict with a passion and preferred to let rudeness roll off her like water off the back of a duck, had a breaking point.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Police said Mangione was in possession of a firearm matching the one used in the shooting, a fake ID and a notebook expressing hostility toward the health insurance industry and wealthy executives.—
Katherine Fung,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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The stakes for Thursday's game were raised amid physical hostility between the teams throughout the tournament and geopolitical tension between the two countries in recent weeks.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
21 Feb. 2025
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But a bad result from Saturday’s trip to Everton, resurgent under David Moyes, could mean acceptance morphs into animosity.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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While there’s no animosity, there is also no rapport.—
Jeanne Phillips,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.—
Sable Yong,
TIME,
28 June 2024
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Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2024
Noun
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The ranks of mainland Chinese visitors coming to Japan nearly tripled last year to 7 million, chipping away at decades of antagonism between the countries and helping make 2024 a banner year for tourism.—
Ann Scott Tyson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Feb. 2025
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President Trump seems safe in his antagonism toward his American opposition.—
Richard E. Vatz,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Stirring up antipathy is always going to be an occupational hazard for people who study misinformation, rumors, pseudoscience and quackery.—
F.D. Flam,
The Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2024
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During President-elect Donald Trump's first four years in office, Kennedy Center officials were forced to walk a public tightrope between the tradition of the president attending the ceremony and the open antipathy toward Trump from multiple honorees.—
ASHRAF KHALIL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Touchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touchiness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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