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
Jasper Wiese had swept past Alex Coles with a run bristling with evil intent.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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
The landscape below them was a bleak, ash-gray plain bristling with black trees, like insect hair.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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