trenchant
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Still, China’s stagnant dollar economy is at the heart of many of its most trenchant problems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Perhaps this nihilism will prove too trenchant and reactive for some viewers.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025
The humor is more direct — Barron can be very funny — but the debate is less trenchant.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025
Associated Newspapers has not issued a statement in response to the BBC, but has previously denied the allegations, saying it has "filed a trenchant defence of its journalism against claims of phone-hacking".
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025
A number of his most trenchant satires are directed against George III., who, after examining some of Gillray’s sketches, said, with characteristic ignorance and blindness to merit, “I don’t understand these caricatures.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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