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Recent Examples of hair-trigger
But by the time events with Timothée Chalamet’s Marty come to a head, Ferrara has drawn a sinister character — a gangster with a hair-trigger finger on his gun who will kill to get back his dog and money, in that order.
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Jenelle Riley, Variety, 2 Jan. 2026
But Halfmann suspects this hair-trigger system is needlessly killing brain cells in diseases like Alzheimer's.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
The timing of the blaze, the threats Goodstein received and the country’s hair-trigger political atmosphere all offered more than a little reason for pause and reflection.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
The self-supporting rotational action and hair-trigger dip-buying reflex is underpinning this resilience, with some mostly expected but reassuring data on personal income, spending and PCE inflation providing cover.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2025
Wayans portrays White as the worst possible mentor: a brash, arrogant superstar with a hair-trigger temper and too many screws loose.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
They’re staffed around the clock and kept on hair-trigger alert.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
The real uncertainties in the bond market are lodged in the larger complexities and flammable preconditions resulting from highly leveraged speculative positions set to unwind on a hair-trigger.
—George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
But does the Sandman still have the fire in him to play a hockey player turned golfer powered by his hair-trigger temper?
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hair-trigger
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This would include active eczema, psoriasis flare ups, or people with hypersensitive skin.—
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Jean-Michel Beuriot, Philippe Richelle Between 2001 and 2023, the award-winning saga Amours Fragiles told the story of Martin Mahner, a young, hypersensitive German, through the rise of Nazism and the war years.—
Adjective
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Your eyes become supersensitive to sunlight: Some people with nr-axSpA will also have a condition called uveitis.—
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Across the world, dozens of supersensitive detectors have been installed since the beginning of the Cold War era to detect infrasound waves created by nuclear tests thousands of miles away.—
Adjective
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Most commenters on the TSR post agreed that Yung Miami meant no disrespect and that Lizzo was being a little oversensitive.—
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The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.—
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The engine, freed from its hook by a sudden hard, precise kick, quickly sank into the river, pulling the cord tight and dragging the foreman underwater.—
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The company presented Adam, a full-sized humanoid designed for dynamic mobility, alongside Adam-U, a data-collection and training platform focused on precise motion capture and manipulation.—
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“Hair-trigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hair-trigger. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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