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Adjective
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Most glaring, the shrunken frame meant the steering wheel was impeding Fever’s ability to use the brake pedal.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
30 Apr. 2026 -
The Lakers’ lack of guard play is becoming a glaring weakness.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Connecticut trailed Toronto by as many as 13 points in the third quarter, but the rookie-laden Sun clawed their way back to an 83-78 victory powered by a spectacular fourth quarter from Morrow.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
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Banchero was just as spectacular.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2026
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The desperate, contrary need to be different — to be florid — pulled me completely out of the story.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Alito’s humble, low-key approach was measured against Kennedy’s florid interrogations, a contrast that gained resonance after Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann, collapsed in tears at the hearing.—
Peter S. Canellos,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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After being bossed by Paris Saint-Germain across two legs in the Champions League quarter-final, Slot insisted the future remained bright at Liverpool.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Scientists have documented that increasingly brighter nights are altering animal behavior, reproduction cycles and survival.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Magic isn’t always a fancy animatronic.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Not those fancy graphing calculators, though.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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The actors sprang to life, staging a lurid scene in which an evil mistress named Selina frames the heroine for killing her unborn child.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Cascio’s lawsuit paints a lurid picture of Jackson giving the siblings drugs and alcohol and exposing them to child pornography, all to help facilitate the abuse and manipulation.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
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For those who know the play well, some of Mantello’s choices are most striking, especially the horror here of the famous hotel-room scene with a tawdry lover (brutally played by Katherine Romans), an act born of loneliness that destroys a father’s relationship with his son forever.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Illinois and Chicago are high-tax, big-promise blue strongholds with long, tawdry histories of waste, fraud, patronage, insider deals and blatant corruption.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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With four restaurants, each offering its own culinary and visual identity, and a snazzy bar to match, Fairmont Mumbai makes a strong case for staying in.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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Nashville’s star keeps getting brighter—drop your bags at the snazzy Hermitage Hotel and head to the nearest dance floor.—
Anne Olivia Bauso,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Overbright.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overbright. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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