stridency

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Recent Examples of stridency Federici’s position on reproductive labour has long since evolved from her Wages for Housework–era stridency. Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024 In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency. David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024 At the turn of the millennium, just after the Sept. 11 attacks, Keith, who died Monday at 62, released a string of songs that were notable for their political stridency, commitment to American exceptionalism and flexed-bicep threat. Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024 Dworkin, metonym for an outmoded Second Wave stridency? Sam Huber, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for stridency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stridency
Noun
  • Jaclyn’s insistence that Laurie have a fling with him will almost certainly backfire; the question is when and how.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • What makes Trump different is his insistence on disrupting the basic apparatus of climate science, the effort to understand how warm the planet will one day become, and how quickly its seas will rise.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Immediate Market Reactions On The Crypto Reserve Unsurprisingly, the market responded with fervor.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The actor mastered Charles' verbal and physical mannerisms — and played the piano and lip-synced with a fervor few actors have ever mustered.
    EW.com, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The real shock for Ukrainians is not necessarily in the substance of Trump's remarks but in their directness—which is indeed unwise.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • One group may appreciate directness, but another prefers more sensitivity.
    Linda Allen-Hardisty, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The fervency of acclaim that the movie spawned—$1 billion worldwide at the box office and a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars—suggested, somewhat chillingly, that the masses found catharsis in this tale.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • There were several questions centered around the fervency of support for each candidate, including on favorability, concerns about age and whether each party’s presumptive nominee should actually be the nominee.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Noun
  • Our menu’s deepest depth is more about tint, color warmth and sound balance.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Symptoms of a scorpion sting include pain reaching levels of intense, numbness and tingling, swelling and warmth.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But even at his most frustrating, the ardency of his thinking draws us to him.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
  • His impassioned speeches the last two weeks endear him to many players, but his ardency proved irksome to others.
    Joseph Longo, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • But any non-cynic can’t help but be swept up in its doomed ardor. 54.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • With the exception of the loving, loyal Nasha, whom Ackie invests with romantic ardor and action-hero intensity, Mickey’s fellow-travellers prove a rotten lot.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes our horror reaches out and devastates others, and when that happens, the eloquence of our lies will do nothing to redeem us.
    Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2025
  • He has long been known for his eloquence, candor and wit that can surface in unexpected moments.
    Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Stridency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stridency. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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