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galling

[gaw-ling] / ˈgɔ lɪŋ /


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Most galling for the team was that Racing Bulls driver Arvid Lindblad finished seventh and that has extended their gap over Alpine in their fight for fifth place in the constructors' championship to 15 points.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

IBM’s current predicament is especially galling given it was once at the forefront of AI with Watson, a natural-language computer processing system that won “Jeopardy!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The loss of Shazeer is particularly galling as it is the second time he has left Google.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

And that’s not even the most galling part.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

We none of us can abide too much longer this containment, trapped here as we all eat our diet of galling news and the smoke of ruin.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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