perturbable

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Adjective
  • What are the symptoms of irritable bowel disease?
    Lindy Segal, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps through feeling more irritable, more anxious, or wanting to isolate.
    Joy Harden Bradford, AJC.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Their first conversation is comically lopsided, and McKellen, purring his way through what is effectively a monologue, lays the groundwork for his most vividly inhabited and hilariously irascible performance in years.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Antonia has also wound up with her family, including her grandmother, an irascible old woman who is both Antonia’s role model and perhaps chief antagonist.
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • But then Johnson pivoted to corruption, a touchy subject in Mexico.
    Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Xinjiang has long been a touchy issue in neighboring Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country of 20 million people that relies on China as a major trading partner.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The meeting became testy, Rose said.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The City of San Diego’s projected $146 million budget deficit became more localized and testy as audience questions generated much of the discussion during the April 15 Pacific Beach Town Council meeting.
    Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The life of a music director at a major opera company is inevitably one engaged in tragedy, and Conlon exhibits the dramatic flair to grip its emotional immensity.
    Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Surely, many are concerned over the dramatic impact this innovation will have on jobs and workforce participation, particularly given how quickly these changes are anticipated.
    Bill Connolly, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Instead, this campy and melodramatic action flick from 1993 mutated into an immersive research experience for me that was firmly anchored in the global pop culture of the time.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Rather than melodramatic views of the ship at sea, the first scenes captured intimate moments with a handful of passengers.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • As the city evolves around him, Airport BLVD becomes a soulful, romantic, and bittersweet love letter to a city old and new.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Her interpretation of the song as a soulful ballad was a massive smash hit, breaking the record at the time for most weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Perturbable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perturbable. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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