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Recent Examples of unpleasantness
The big picture: No entrepreneur enjoys fundraising, but there's a special unpleasantness for generative AI founders who need billions of dollars to train their models.
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Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
Twice during the approximately 90-minute session of filibustering, chaotic press questioning, and overall unpleasantness, the microphone feedback sent shudders through the hearts of the some 100 reporters packed into a sweaty room.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
In this three-part anthology, Lanthimos triples down on the unpleasantness that got him Oscar nominations and festival-circuit praise for The Favourite and Poor Things — films set outside his Greek background that yet exhibit his art-movie temerity.
—Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2024
Economists once thought that market wages, when measured properly, did not differ much between industries except to compensate for the risks of the job or other unpleasantness.
—Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
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Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
Twice during the approximately 90-minute session of filibustering, chaotic press questioning, and overall unpleasantness, the microphone feedback sent shudders through the hearts of the some 100 reporters packed into a sweaty room.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
In this three-part anthology, Lanthimos triples down on the unpleasantness that got him Oscar nominations and festival-circuit praise for The Favourite and Poor Things — films set outside his Greek background that yet exhibit his art-movie temerity.
—Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2024
Economists once thought that market wages, when measured properly, did not differ much between industries except to compensate for the risks of the job or other unpleasantness.
—Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpleasantness
Noun
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Brianna seems to swing between two moods: intense enthusiasm, intense repugnance.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.—
Salam Fayyad,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2024
Noun
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In statistical terms, 1977-78, 1994-95 and 2001-02 were particularly poor overall, but this campaign is heading towards eclipsing even those in infamy.—
Rob Tanner,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Amanda Knox opens up with Fresh Air American Amanda Knox was catapulted into global infamy after being accused of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, during a study abroad program in Perugia, Italy.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Prana's Halle Straight Pants II have a flattering silhouette that resembles the fit of your favorite jeans — only with UPF 50+ for sun protection, water repellency, and abrasion resistance.—
Michelle Tchea,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2024
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Chemicals are added to create different characteristics, such as flexibility or water repellency.—
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024
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Additionally, it was feared that acknowledgment of Khmer Rouge atrocities would validate the U.S. military endeavors in Indochina, which many people — especially leading scholars — had come to excoriate.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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Such eye-opening depictions of 19th and 20th-century atrocities, much like the contemporary accounts on the issue of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women, are not merely instructive, but necessary.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Unpleasantness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpleasantness. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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