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Adjective
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Thune, a fourth-term senator from South Dakota, is an awkward leader for Trump’s ruthless Republican Party, in part because even Democrats invariably describe him as amiable and honest.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025 -
Onstage, Wood is unhurried, an amiable man who, despite being 46, has the countenance of a churchgoing grandfather who still starches his Sunday suit.—
Ismail Muhammad,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The once docile Jamie, convinced he’s being manipulated, becomes testy and volatile.—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
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Instead, inflation expectations remained relatively docile — rising only modestly, and falling quickly once inflation began to ease — and the Fed was able to bring down inflation without causing a big increase in unemployment.—
Colby Smith,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Gabriel Navarro and two colleagues turned one of group theory’s biggest open conjectures into a tractable problem.—
Leila Sloman,
WIRED,
23 Mar. 2025
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Medical researchers have made these images tractable for CNNs by breaking them up into much smaller fragments—square tiles, for example.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Aug. 2021
Adjective
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In this framing, children are not autonomous individuals worthy of respect, but future standard-bearers of their parents’ values—which means that the greatest sign of a mother’s success is producing obedient children.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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His oxygen tank sat at his knees like an obedient mastiff.—
Brandon Taylor,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Trump was demanding deference from Zelenskyy to show his inferior and submissive position as a recipient of U.S. aid and military support.—
Shannon Bow O'Brien,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2025
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Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service.—
Claude Malhuret,
The Atlantic,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Starting April 15, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas will require prior authorization before covering certain asthma treatments in clinics, obliging patients to self-inject the drugs at home.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Mar. 2025
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That now prove riskier given that screen quotas, obliging cinema theaters to open Argentine films, were also rescinded last year.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Critics of the Trump administration’s long-overdue attempt to degrade the Houthis’ capacity to disrupt international shipping (a terrorist initiative that is occasionally quite deferential to the West’s enemies in Beijing and Moscow) have made a variety of tendentious claims.—
The Editors,
National Review,
18 Mar. 2025
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As Zelensky tried to get a word in, Trump and Vance attack him for not being sufficiently deferential.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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That’s because police have used the state of exception to sweep up street vendors, who’ve been much more compliant with eviction notices ever since.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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This can be done by gathering data that is 100% compliant and cleansing data regularly.—
Rob Sanchez,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Ruly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruly. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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