sassy
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Then choose from these options: original, brief, sweet, chill and sassy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Viral baby elephant Linh Mai is apparently pretty sassy.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Or, when the bot feels sassy: “Not X. Not Y. But Z.”
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
The story’s sassy, brassy antihero has likewise adorned Christmas trees and school library shelves for generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
Mrs. smiled, but I could see how tired she was and that her eyes were losing their sassy spark.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
For British contestants, likely weaned on the screaming matches and snogs of “Big Brother” and “The Only Way Is Essex,” the precedent is to be sassier, unbridled, more candid.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2019
“He’s so unapologetically himself. He’s way sassier than Grey is, too. My dream night is at home with a cup of tea.”
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2018
You can dress up any dessert to be saltier and sassier in a few different ways.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2018
“They’re getting sassier every day,” she said loudly.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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"My goal when I put on the music is let me do the coolest shapes in the sassiest of ways," she says.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Then, after she and Cindy Williams guested on a scene-stealing 1975 episode of "Happy Days," their characters were spun off to become mid century Milwaukee's sassiest brewery workers, "Laverne & Shirley."
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2018
And then there’s Jen Sincero, the sassiest of them all.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2016
One of the new album's sassiest tracks, "Blank Space," was sparked by what was being written about her in the tabloids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2014
"Are you the conductor of this car?" she snapped, "Because if you be, you're the sassiest conductor that ever I see!"
From The Story of Cooperstown by Ralph Birdsall
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