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Recent Examples of hair-trigger
Other than that explosive, hair-trigger temper evidenced above.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Morrissey ordered more tests to determine whether Baldwin’s gun had a hair-trigger, as the defense team suggested.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
Granted, two blips don’t make a trend, even in the hair-trigger world of contemporary Web journalism.
—Michael Cieply, Deadline, 1 July 2024
Explain your concerns about the man’s hair-trigger temper and your worry that her child could be caught in the middle of one of his violent episodes — or injured or killed if his fury is aimed directly at the child.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Garland’s button-pushing feature seems all too plausible given the climate of hair-trigger anger and bitterness in which America exists today.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
An Adam Sandler character is usually, if belatedly, all about growing up — and changing for the better, even if, as with Billy's journey, that process comes yoked with streaks of hair-trigger hostility and self-doubt.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
The lonesome detective—with a stern constitution, hair-trigger nonsense detector, and endearing alcohol dependency—is a reliably compelling protagonist, capable of crossing legal lines and meting out justice.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
But Beijing’s hair-trigger sensitivity to issues regarding ethnic minorities makes aiding Inner Mongolians — whether in China or in Mongolia — complicated.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Morrissey ordered more tests to determine whether Baldwin’s gun had a hair-trigger, as the defense team suggested.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
Granted, two blips don’t make a trend, even in the hair-trigger world of contemporary Web journalism.
—Michael Cieply, Deadline, 1 July 2024
Explain your concerns about the man’s hair-trigger temper and your worry that her child could be caught in the middle of one of his violent episodes — or injured or killed if his fury is aimed directly at the child.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Garland’s button-pushing feature seems all too plausible given the climate of hair-trigger anger and bitterness in which America exists today.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
An Adam Sandler character is usually, if belatedly, all about growing up — and changing for the better, even if, as with Billy's journey, that process comes yoked with streaks of hair-trigger hostility and self-doubt.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
The lonesome detective—with a stern constitution, hair-trigger nonsense detector, and endearing alcohol dependency—is a reliably compelling protagonist, capable of crossing legal lines and meting out justice.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
But Beijing’s hair-trigger sensitivity to issues regarding ethnic minorities makes aiding Inner Mongolians — whether in China or in Mongolia — complicated.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hair-trigger
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Sensitivity to cold: After frostbite, the affected areas may become hypersensitive to cold, making future cold exposure more uncomfortable.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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But this steady diet of praise has made the generals hypersensitive to criticism.Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
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Whitney Fields, 38, from Austin, was fed up with contacts scratching her supersensitive eyes.Julia Ries, SELF, 9 Sep. 2024
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The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.James Mackintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
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The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
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These young ideas rarely do — and the invaluable lesson that students glean from that realization will be lost forever if administrators cut them off at the knees by continuing to appease oversensitive cry-bullies whose antics threaten these vital sandboxes.Brian Anderson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
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Photoshop started the digital image manipulation revolution more than 30 years ago, and Adobe's groundbreaking application continues to be the best photo editing software money can buy (or rent, to be more precise).PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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The neuroscientist and brain surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, was studying the brain activity behind speech, that precise and delicate neural choreography by which lips, jaw, tongue, and larynx produce meaningful sounds.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Hair-trigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hair-trigger. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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