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Recent Examples of gnarly
By comparison, where the Huskers stand after a gnarly 49-46 defeat Monday night against Big Ten co-leader Michigan looks encouraging.
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Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
The pair meet after the guy picks up a prescription for an extremely gnarly black eye, setting off a whirlwind romance that’s inevitably disrupted by — what else? — a grumpy parent.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
Horror enthusiasts enjoyed the gnarly thrills and gory deaths.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
The reason whooping cough can bring on such a gnarly, well, cough in the first place is because of how B. pertussis wreaks havoc: These bugs latch on to the cilia (a.k.a. tiny hairlike protrusions) on cells in your respiratory tract and ooze toxins, triggering inflammation and swelling.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Feb. 2025
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Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
The pair meet after the guy picks up a prescription for an extremely gnarly black eye, setting off a whirlwind romance that’s inevitably disrupted by — what else? — a grumpy parent.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
Horror enthusiasts enjoyed the gnarly thrills and gory deaths.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
The reason whooping cough can bring on such a gnarly, well, cough in the first place is because of how B. pertussis wreaks havoc: These bugs latch on to the cilia (a.k.a. tiny hairlike protrusions) on cells in your respiratory tract and ooze toxins, triggering inflammation and swelling.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gnarly
Adjective
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The 24-year-old displayed all of the good, the bad and the ugly in a 25-game stretch when called up to the majors last season when starting catcher Gabriel Moreno was injured.—
Chuck Murr,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Imagine the classic tale The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen — only, in this version, the ugly duckling doesn’t mature into a beautiful swan.—
Matt Kracht,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Wild played a hideous third period, and the Blues got two more goals from Kyrou.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Just to give one small example: early on in the movie Bernice, who spends most of the story bedridden watching shopping channels, spots a hideous piece of clothing being advertised on television.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Continue reading … ‘PRO-CRIMINAL’ – Blue state sheriff unloads on 'disgusting' bill targeting the right to self-defense.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
11 Mar. 2025
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The world is a disgusting and miserable place, and Tory Lanez is eager to exploit it.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But after a hellish helicopter mission and another spicy roundtable, Brit couldn’t convince Dolores, Ivar and Gabby that Dylan was the one to take a shot at, and she was forced out of the game without revealing her true identity.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
7 Mar. 2025
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But its counterpart, which treats the battle from the perspective of the Japanese forces, is even more remarkable, capturing the hellish conditions in which the soldiers fought and the unforgiving ideology that brought them to the battlefield in the first place.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Needless to say, no one who has any standards whatsoever should want to have anything to do with these loathsome cretins.—
The Editors,
National Review,
3 Mar. 2025
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America was the future, and the future was loathsome.—
James Verini,
The New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Fears of an economic recession have been cited as a catalyst for the stock market’s horrid run this week.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2025
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He was yanked against the Capitals after allowing five goals in a horrid appearance on Saturday.—
Josh Yohe,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This would be a more monumental climb given the beastly nature of the Western Conference.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Orange County Register,
30 Jan. 2025
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Talbot’s reluctant transformation into the title monster and Jack Pierce’s special-effects makeup remain iconic, responsible for the dominant cultural perception of how a werewolf looks and feels — even as cinematic werewolves have become beastlier in the decades since.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The booing at the mention of Huizenga’s name was so hateful that an embarrassed Marino had to beg it to stop.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
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That a little rectangle of cardboard and paper and ink is no match for all the hateful rhetoric about books somehow hurting children.—
Sarah Hoffman and Ian Hoffman,
TIME,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Gnarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gnarly. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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