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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touchiness
Noun
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Still, 70% of our business has some degree of traffic sensitivity.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
29 May 2025 -
The band is asking for a heightened level of sensitivity.—
Lawrence Burney,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Regardless of your intentions, performing extra chores beyond cleaning up after yourself can be perceived as a sign of respect or rudeness.—
Tessa Cooper,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025
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Gone was the discord and rudeness that is often synonymous with the Big Apple.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
25 May 2025
Noun
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Over the nearly 20 months since the hostilities began, Colin Clarke said there has been a radicalization effect in the U.S., particularly of the political left.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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Opposition to the war became hostility toward our own military.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
Noun
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The monarch will be hoping to offer support to Canada in the face of Trump's comments, while simultaneously deflecting any animosity from Trump towards the U.K.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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Fights break out in stands after San Diego’s dramatic 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Galaxy The animosity between rival MLS fans at the San Diego-LA Galaxy match Saturday led to wild postgame scenes of fighting that elicited a sizeable police response.—
Theo Lloyd-Hughes,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 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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In a wide-ranging interview that spans his childhood dyslexia, career-long antagonism of Donald Trump and navigation of today’s contracting movie business, Lee is alternately funny and introspective, worried and grateful, but always unapologetically himself.—
Rebecca Keegan,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2025
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What To Know The exchange was a striking moment of open antagonism in the Oval Office, a space typically reserved for formal diplomacy, especially among U.S. allies.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That’s probably no longer the case given the Chinese government’s subtle antipathy for those who are pulling out or trying to minimize China.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
2 June 2025
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There was plenty of shock and disgust—and enthusiasm, too, from figures who shared West’s fascination with Hitler, or antipathy for Jews.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
15 May 2025
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“Touchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touchiness. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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