punchy
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“November is set to become more interesting, as we get a fresh CNB forecast, while potentially receiving punchy numbers for both November’s headline and core inflation,” they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A platter of summer tomatoes, tuna-belly conserva, shaved onion, and punchy olives arrives where it cannot possibly fit.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Price, in conjunction with fellow analysts Duncan Hay and Ashley Kielty, set out his case for copper in a report published Tuesday with the punchy title, “Copper…. Better than gold.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
From fast-paced World War II history to a slow-burn rescue in rural Wyoming, along with an art-world mystery and a punchy look at modern America, you’ll find something to galvanize your bedside book stack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
A punchy musk, stronger than the perfume in the magazines.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Herbs: bright, fecund, verdant, elevating our food with both flavor and color, guiding us from heavy comfort foods into a punchier, lighter category of cuisine.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
The songs blend the same ingredients the Stones have been using since the beginning — blues, rock, soul, country, gospel — but they’re tighter and punchier than on any of the band’s previous late-era LPs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
There is a choice of a fuel-conscious, non-turbocharged 191-horsepower four-cylinder engine or a punchier 281-horsepower turbo-four available in higher trims.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
Mr Flynn was floated as an alternative who might prove a punchier figure, who would have more of a go at the Westminster establishment - and perhaps, whispered some, the SNP's internal one.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
One was slower and long-form, the other punchier, for singing after touchdowns.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
“GNX,” one of the rapper’s punchiest, most concise releases, is his fifth to get a nod for album of the year—though he has never taken home the trophy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
“Johnson is able to convey the largeness of human experience through the tiniest, punchiest sentences.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
In more ways than one, Bairstow is the great survivor of English cricket and there is genuine affection towards him from all areas of the game, even if he is the media's punchiest sparring partner.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
Our panel agreed that this was the punchiest tomato element on any of the pies, but Vaughn pronounced it too sweet, “the Lunchables of frozen pizza.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
She nodded, then hit me with the gut punchiest of all gut punches.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
