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In turn, Nolan has sacrificed Odysseus himself to serve his own needs, scrapping the character’s prickly personality to Trojan-horse a message about how empires collapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

But an unusually abundant 2026 has crashed the price of the prickly, pungent fruit beloved in large parts of Asia.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Fun fact: The movie’s director, Michael Sarnoski, loves a prickly hero: He also made “Pig,” which stars Nicolas Cage as a gruff truffle hunter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

If we’re lucky, this week’s summit in Beijing won’t produce any shocking headlines on Iran, Taiwan, or any of the other prickly issues that divide the U.S. and China.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

The days their legs itched from the graft, from their leg hairs getting caught in the bandages, a prickly irritation that never stopped.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

To Chalamet’s credit, he’s doing it the hard way, avoiding sentimental pictures for pricklier roles about his own naked ambitions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

And now there are circumstances to navigate that are pricklier than the actors’ five o’clock shadows.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

The second Stanford was a colder, pricklier place that lived inside students’ minds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Mulaney’s comedy, however, has become spikier, pricklier, sometimes slower while remaining as funny as ever, like he’s a pitcher who learned to mix up speeds.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

Things have been pricklier with Edna since she got in trouble, but I’m trying my best to ignore it and move on.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

At its prickliest, this is a film about the ways social niceties can mask deep distrust and dark pasts — which still have a way of surfacing eventually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

But the prickliest part of their schedule still lay ahead.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

Defence and security is among the prickliest topics in the continuing debate over Scottish independence and would likely be a defining issue in any future referendum campaign.

From BBC ● May 18, 2022

Berhe did not receive the prickliest questions from the committee.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 3, 2021

She'd set over a roarin' fire in the cook-stove even in the prickliest o' the dog-days.

From Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith