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Noun
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The noise cancellation is legendary, and the sound is balanced and clean, with no weird bass boosting or treble harshness.—
PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
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The harshness of the rhetoric reflects just how much Moscow stands to lose if the deal holds and TRIPP become a reality.—
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There are cheerful barging amateurs, happy to be bounced about, and there are prowling malevolences, waiting for the moment to blindside someone or chuck an elbow in their face.—
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Technical contributions are aces: Robert Richardson’s garish but subdued lighting clues us to the malevolence beneath the glitter, while Thelma Schoonmaker Powell’s editing perfectly punctu ates the frenzy.—
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Comment sections have always attracted hatefulness and resentment; these ones just happen to encourage it more explicitly.—
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His Cyrano is the play’s hero, even if the character’s psychological limitations are as much a factor in the story as the machinations of De Guiche, whose malignity is sent up in Nathanson’s flamboyantly comic turn.—
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For a decade, the central drama of Trumpism has concerned the Republican élites who continued to support him—the story has been about their malignity, or opportunism, or willful moral blindness.—
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The guy was a sleaze, but there’s a pretty big gap between sleaziness and murderousness.—
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Happily, there are pleasures that precede this grimness.—
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Even in the grimness of war, the photographer manages to find beauty in his subjects.—
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“Oppressiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oppressiveness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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