as in manner
a distinctive way of putting ideas into words
the author goes on in that sarcastic vein for pages
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Recent Examples of vein
The veins in both her arms used to be coöperative for Eileen.
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Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
In February 2024, the state’s execution team, a group of volunteers who remain anonymous under a different Idaho law, couldn’t find a vein suitable for an IV in a septuagenarian prisoner.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2025
And Markle has always embraced that vein of classic American style.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
In the same way or the same vein, the Sphere was a spectacle for the UFC and 306.
—Andrew Ravens, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
In February 2024, the state’s execution team, a group of volunteers who remain anonymous under a different Idaho law, couldn’t find a vein suitable for an IV in a septuagenarian prisoner.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2025
And Markle has always embraced that vein of classic American style.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
In the same way or the same vein, the Sphere was a spectacle for the UFC and 306.
—Andrew Ravens, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vein
Noun
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One of the biggest mysteries in the cryptoasset sector is, despite the rapid and comprehensive pivot of U.S. policymakers to one of a pro-crypto outlook, why cryptoasset prices have yet to respond decisively and in a sustained manner.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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His manner with the girl is more bemused, placating.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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With optional features such as skin tone, hair color, glasses, mustache, freckles and appropriate military branch uniform, the dolls can be ordered to look like the parent.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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His wave illustrations, many of them in color, eschew the sardonic tone that distinguishes his other work, and instead center the power and calm of nature, often commenting on humanity’s relation to it through the presentation of a single, minuscule surfer riding a monster swell.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The guitar bolts and sweeping synths beg you to imagine Carti as some kind of shadow boss, levitating in the sky like SpongeBob going Goofy Goober mode.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
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In that mode, judges and lawyers abandon legal sobriety and bend the law beyond its recognizable contours in order to thwart Trump.—
The Editors,
National Review,
19 Mar. 2025
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Personal style is all about texture, and so for me, adding texture through an accessory, like a leather belt or gold jewelry, helps make your outfits feel less plain.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
15 Mar. 2025
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His editing style, with its big budgets and nonconfrontational leadership, feels akin to hosting.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Vein.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vein. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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