bristling

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High overhead, military aircraft bristling with antennas and probes scan surrounding waters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

That was the same year as his no-holds-barred memoir Spare and a year after the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary, both bristling with controversial views on the Royal Family.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

Messi and his team-mates will head into the final bristling with confidence after another ruthless, high-scoring demolition job that followed on from their 4-0 drubbing of FC Cincinnati in the previous round.

From Barron's • Nov. 30, 2025

The industry has simultaneously claimed that it is addressing methane while bristling at oversight.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin