bristles
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The White House also bristles at Amodei's repeated warnings about the dangers of AI -- including the impact on jobs -- and his calls to regulate its deployment like airlines or banks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Paul “PB” Branson, who graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in May, bristles at the thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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
The book bristles with insight and originality, interspersing Vara’s more journalistic expositions with excurses and fragments curated from the author’s expansive digital life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
He raised a cloth and revealed a huge boar with bristles made of gold.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
