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Recent Examples of metallic
The sneaker features a seamless synthetic upper in metallic silver with a vibrant red Swoosh and heel tab, and a heel counter with a mirror-like finish.
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Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 19 May 2025
The streets reeked of the metallic smell of gunpowder, and the heavy smoke set Wanis coughing.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
This reflective, metallic, double-helix staircase climbs from the ground floor, flowing up and out of the rooftop onto a viewing platform looking over the city.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Even through the metallic glow of my phone screen, the energy felt feral and somewhat romantic, a blur of cropped T-shirts, digital camera flashes, and college students climbing trees or lampposts under the setting sun.
—Ashliene McMenamy, Allure, 17 May 2025
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Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 19 May 2025
The streets reeked of the metallic smell of gunpowder, and the heavy smoke set Wanis coughing.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
This reflective, metallic, double-helix staircase climbs from the ground floor, flowing up and out of the rooftop onto a viewing platform looking over the city.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Even through the metallic glow of my phone screen, the energy felt feral and somewhat romantic, a blur of cropped T-shirts, digital camera flashes, and college students climbing trees or lampposts under the setting sun.
—Ashliene McMenamy, Allure, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for metallic
Adjective
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Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
22 Apr. 2025
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As such, The Studio is shrill and talky, its chaotic scenes sparked by random performers like Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Olivia Wilde and Sarah Polley, all of whom want something from Remick.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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By agreeing that the reaction is a strident possibility, the next step of determining what to do about it is opened.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Lost on no one was the fact that Koch was in town—a rare visit, really—to accept the 2025 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, named in honor of the economist who was pretty strident in his opposition to tariffs.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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That 2-1 defeat was a stinger — Tōko Koga’s decisive goal in the 50th minute hushed an otherwise raucous San Diego crowd.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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The 16th annual Big Slick weekend publicly kicked off at The K with a raucous celebrity softball game, led by hosts Paul Rudd, Rob Riggle, Jason Sudeikis, Eric Stonestreet, David Koechner and Heidi Gardner — plus all of their closest friends.—
Ramal Nasim,
Kansas City Star,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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Less an adaptation than a dissonant echo of Carrollian logic, Alice is a marvel of handmade horror that channels the darker currents of adolescent imagination and, not unlike Us, treats the inner life of a child not as an innocent refuge but as haunted terrain.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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Salome, in the grisly final scene, reasserts a degree of tonal stability, but dissonant uproar resumes when Herod commands her death.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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With his almost 7-foot stature, visible skin lesions, heavy cloak, raspy voice, and big ol' broom mustache, the actor is virtually unrecognizable in the film's final cut.—
Emlyn Travis Published,
EW.com,
15 May 2025
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The engine sounds raspy and unrefined, and the power output feels lethargic and underwhelming.—
Michael Harley,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Still to this day, seeing a sea of red robes walking in twos is jarring.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
29 May 2025
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Lighting designer Richard Norwood’s overhead fluorescents shine a harsh glare on Bisa’s Victorian-esque costumes, with jarring buzzes from sound designer Rick Sims punctuating the sudden lighting changes.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
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The Miz, often derided as a wrestler for his flamboyant and grating onscreen personality, is few people’s idea of a WrestleMania main-event talent, so his win makes the 27th event stand out as kind of an oddity.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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His political opponents viewed him as grating, uncooperative, and at times dogmatic.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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At a 78th Cannes, which on the party side wasn’t as noisy as previous ones with drone shows (2022’s Elvis) and Elton John performing on the beach (2019’s Rocketman), leave it to amfAR‘s 31st fashionista blowout Cannes Gala at Hotel Du Cap at Eden Roc to steal the show.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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Hike in groups: A group is noisier and smellier, the National Park Service said.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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“Metallic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metallic. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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