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austere

[aw-steer] / ɔˈstɪər /




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It was 2019 and her California-based firm, Austere, had just agreed to supply several big US retailers with its high-end audio and video accessories that are largely manufactured in China.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025

Austere in form, “Heroes,” steeps us in the heated conversation of its characters as they reveal how they’ve changed since leaving the security of Transfiguration.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Austere yet toylike, the pieces are an exercise in dollhouse minimalism.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2019

Austere in his habits, the Mexican candidate is in some ways quite unlike the flamboyant billionaire.

From Reuters • Jun. 10, 2018

Austere without severity, simple in habit without rudeness, indomitable in courage, imperious in will, gravely eloquent, he had at once the liberality and the narrowness of the middle classes, which he represented when in power.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund




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