bristling
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“I don’t know what a ‘John Turturro type’ is,” he says, bristling slightly at the suggestion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
A few blocks away, members of another branch of the House of Rothschild were bristling over the reputational knock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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
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
Oily black scales bristling with barbed spikes covered its grotesque body.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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