bristle

“I bristle sometimes with the attitude that like, ‘Wow, we’re all going to hell, ha ha ha!’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

From a distance, Malaysia's Forest City looks 3D-printed: a bristle of identical white blocks clustered on an otherwise unremarkable coastline.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Like other predatory bristle worms, this species has jaws built from structural proteins and ions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

Not in my favor: I cannot abide hippie culture, bristle at the slightest whiff of woo woo and balk reflexively at the phrase “loving kindness,” which immediately calls to mind the worst person I know.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Caterpillars one after another I laid on my tongue, their char crisp bristle taste a sweet momentary salve to a body aching for protein.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Raised in Puerto Rico by parents with both Boricuan and Cuban heritage, Bermúdez bristles at attempts to divide Latinos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

She bristles when she realizes some dentists are using AI images to upsell patients—deploying color-coded overlays to dramatize borderline findings and justify questionable treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Elephants are born with about 1,000 of these bristles, lead author Andrew Schulz told AFP, many of them anchored in the trunk's wrinkles to act like feelers and help the animals assess their surroundings.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

And while the ship bristles with hi-tech communications equipment, it's what we can't see that is of most concern.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025

Gendry was too stubborn to make one for her, so she had made her own by breaking the bristles off a broom.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

In a tense opening set, Sabalenka bristled with frustration early on as unforced errors crept into her game while Pegula settled quickly and struck the ball cleanly.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Under Moreno, the city bristled, the “of Anaheim” part of “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” had disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The White House has also bristled at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's repeated warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence -- including the impact on jobs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Aronowitz has bristled at this sort of criticism.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

The vixen poked her pointed snout in to sniff him more closely and bristled again.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

He admits now many in China have "material abundance" and "skylines bristling with high-rises and streets teeming with traffic."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Economic headwinds have reduced tourism to Las Vegas after a postpandemic boom, with consumers now bristling over higher starting bids at table games and increased prices for beverages and poolside cabanas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

Nately reacted on sight with bristling enmity to this wicked, depraved and unpatriotic old man who was old enough to remind him of his father and who made disparaging jokes about America.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller