blimpish

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Recent Examples of blimpish Huntington, a lifelong Democrat, was accused of blimpish conservatism, jingoism or worse. Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 29 June 2018
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Adjective
  • Some beauty companies, particularly those that offer a wide variety of cosmetics products, could see strong gains as U.S.-China trade worries ease and loyal consumers seek out their essentials on a budget.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 19 May 2025
  • Season 20 winner Noah Thompson found success in country music, performing alongside genre staples and growing a loyal fanbase.
    Tahar Rajab, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Despite Aspinall winning the interim crown, UFC CEO Dana White remained steadfast in saying that Jones vs. Miocic was the fight to make.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Over the years, the Biden family has confronted unimaginable adversity with grace and steadfast perseverance.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • But being faithful to existing customers is one of her most important obligations.
    Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Normally the complaint with an adaptation is that the show or film's creators are ruining the story somehow by being insufficiently faithful to the source material and losing something in the process.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • By statute, three quarters of that money is devoted to television, one quarter to radio.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 27 May 2025
  • Newsletter Get our high school sports newsletter Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • Macgregor, a staunch anti-interventionist, advocates for dropping Russian sanctions completely rather than imposing more, and argues the U.S. national strategic interests do not conflict with Russia’s.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 28 May 2025
  • Makary, who was sworn in to lead the FDA on April 1, is a controversial Johns Hopkins University surgeon and researcher who gained national attention as a staunch critic of the federal response to COVID.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • Director Simón Mesa Soto shares in that fervor, mining his main character for pathos, not ridicule, framing Oscar as a true-blue romantic — a kind of holy fool susceptible to even the most obvious of scams but only because this staunch aesthete has devoted all of his attention to verse.
    Ben Croll, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
  • Even in true-blue Manhattan, Columbus Circle still has its 76-foot tall namesake at its center, a monument developed in response to the violent lynchings of Italian-American immigrants.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • One year later, Day, the Arkansas softball team’s steady utility player, delivered one of the biggest hits in program history.
    Ethan Westerman, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2025
  • Under the Biden administration, the number of controllers held steady with a head count of 13,853 at the end of the 2023 fiscal year, the latest data available.
    Linda Qiu, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Savannah Bananas took on the Firefighters (another team that has dance numbers in their playbook) in a game that was closer to a slapstick vaudeville act than a stodgy MLB game.
    Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2025
  • Besides, a high-fiber breakfast doesn’t have to mean one that’s stodgy or boring.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Blimpish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blimpish. Accessed 31 May. 2025.

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