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Recent Examples of scabrous
At nearly three hours, the anthology film was divisive: Some hailed its scabrous take on human nature as brilliant, and others derided it as bloated.
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 May 2024
Malcolm is the pressure-release valve in Baumbach's scabrous follow-up to 2005's The Squid and the Whale, and one of many points of contention between Margot and Pauline.
—Erik Adams, EW.com, 18 July 2023
This dirty Pommie duo make scabrous gold on UK Grim, their 12th studio album.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
Brined for 24 hours, the halal chicken is enveloped in a rub whose 15 or so ingredients transform the skin into something scabrous, charred and unnerving.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 May 2024
Malcolm is the pressure-release valve in Baumbach's scabrous follow-up to 2005's The Squid and the Whale, and one of many points of contention between Margot and Pauline.
—Erik Adams, EW.com, 18 July 2023
This dirty Pommie duo make scabrous gold on UK Grim, their 12th studio album.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
Brined for 24 hours, the halal chicken is enveloped in a rub whose 15 or so ingredients transform the skin into something scabrous, charred and unnerving.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scabrous
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Temu is running approximately 27,000 ads across Meta sites and apps globally, particularly in Europe and the U.K. That could be troublesome for Meta’s advertising business, which has gotten a significant boost from the discount retailer.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2025
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This meant that instead of simply stopping Ukraine from being so troublesome, Russia now sought to demonstrate to NATO countries that it could not be broken by economic sanctions or the alliance’s weapons supplies to Ukraine.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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That representation, which spanned three decades, included some of Haiti’s most high profile and emblematic legal cases, with the names of victims and abusers alike reading like a who’s who in the country’s vexing political trajectory.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Central Park Conservancy, which has restored and managed the park for four decades, has higher ambitions: for Central Park to be a civic laboratory committed to confronting some of the more vexing urban policy challenges of our time.—
Betsy Smith,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Everything that Donald -- any suit that's filed against Trump's administration, Donald Trump will -- will by definition believe is frivolous and vexatious, okay?—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
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But that’s all done now, and finding anything that comes close is a vexatious trial.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
7 Nov. 2024
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Despite growing consternation and concern expressed by economists and CEOs, Trump administration officials have been stubborn in defending its trade policies.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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Ocasio-Cortez might have a good shot at cracking that stubborn nut.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Bond traders in 2025: The bond market sell-off is more worrisome than the one in stocks.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Given that, over the course of the show, White has written exactly one Black main character (though she’s appeared twice), that might be worrisome.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This capability directly addresses use cases involving the analysis of extensive codebases, the summarization of lengthy documents, or maintaining context in prolonged complex interactions necessary for sophisticated AI agents.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Unhackable networks: Traditional encryption relies on complex math problems that could eventually be cracked by powerful computers.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Nov. 2024
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In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Apr. 2024
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The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum fills in the gaps, connecting the old world to the new with impressionists and abstract pioneers.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025
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Kozloff also made and exhibited abstract paintings that channeled heroes such as Pierre Bonnard and Philip Guston.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Scabrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scabrous. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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