keen
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One fundamental observation Hsueh is keen to emphasize is that going back to 1957 and continuing to 2023, over that long time frame, gold has outperformed the U.S. consumer price index.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
"He was keen on making Nepal recognized in the world and developing our mountaineering sector."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Megan Moroney, whose ‘Tennessee Orange’ is nominated for song of the year at the CMA Awards, shares the keen eye of her heroes Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The CIO of Ranmore Funds isn’t too keen on U.S. valuations at present, but the beaten-down software sector is luring him back in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Both men also shared a keen sense of the highly fluid and still-fragile character of the recently launched American republic.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Dr Caulfield said she was "delighted” to see Róis “proudly performing her keens to full houses, with no shame or stigmatisation involved, just audiences loving her bravery and skill".
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Benjamin Wallfisch’s score keens and groans ominously, sometimes dipping into synthy electronic moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
She’s got a beaten-up suitcase at her feet and keens softly into her lap.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2019
He has too much of his father in him, the forlorn trumpet of John Williams’ score keens.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2019
The priests walk slowly around the pyre, saying antique prayers, and the crowd, all in black, ignoring the black priests, keens.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
The magic is unique and often biological—many characters have mental or physical enhancements that give them perfect memory or keener senses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
What they were keener to talk about was life in Henderson, a city they’d lived in and loved for a long time now—including for the MMA connection.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024
Since then, Williams has been a night owl — and an even keener student of the game, of the Rams’ offense and of upcoming opponents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
When Jude began to hover around, she was flattered—all the girls liked him—and Sula made the enjoyment of his attentions keener simply because she seemed always to want Nel to shine.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
The event was hosted by Wendy Cutler, a veteran American trade negotiator and one of Washington’s keenest observers of Asian trade policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
For our money, Jim is both the funniest and keenest politics writer in the United States—which is to say, readers, your long national nightmare is over!
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2025
Among the keenest observers of the test flights in Texas is Nasa.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
The most exciting auteurs are the keenest readers of plays.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
Father Olufemi would have picked the strongest, fastest, and keenest warriors for such a mission, and they’d prove their worth once in the jungle.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Amid the nonstop drumbeat of hundreds of feet walking together, bagpipes keened, striking an appropriately dignified tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
“My boy, my little boy, come home to us, my little boy,” she keened over the body.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
But whether the wind produced a lion’s roar, or merely keened or whistled or hummed, at its peak it was clocked by the National Weather Service at Reagan National Airport at 29 mph.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2020
Well, the souls howled and keened, as distressed souls are known to do, since they understood that a garden that nobody visited was not worth cultivating.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
She nursed the baby as she keened and every so often held her up so that Zizmo and God could see what they had done.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
As such, there's little to compare with the straightforward joy of Watermelon Sugar, or the keening desire of As It Was - but Styles isn't stupid enough to alienate his fanbase entirely.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Shift to Sport mode and the engine will hold at a high, keening rpm, trying to charge the battery faster than the driver can drain it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
When I set out to write this, I admit, I meant it to be as rueful as Earl’s keening deathbed monologue about “the goddamn regret.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
In these wondrously transporting images of juddering waves and swirling particles, accompanied by the rumbling, surging, keening strains of Ludwig Göransson’s magnificent score, Nolan makes a rare leap into realms of pure cinematic abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
Jon could hear the wind keening as it shivered through the high pass above them.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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