keen
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She’s been keen to share a bill with Sleater-Kinney ever since she heard their 1996 album “Call the Doctor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
In their training data, AI will find plenty of evidence that humans not only are sensitive to such claims, but are keen to champion ideas of AI sentience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
It was keen to point to its other achievements over the last three years - highlighted at Monday's briefing, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The manager was the key factor in this blockbuster deal with Maresca keen to reunite with his former Chelsea skipper.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
I was back in the world with a clear head and a keen vision of just how talented I really was.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
A sound I didn’t know I could make keens out of me.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
It's not hard to imagine which one the family of the time was keener to remember.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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
I still had practice, but I was keener to run around and deal with stress that way than I’d been to have well-meaning teachers not know what to say in my presence.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
The 52-year-old German is known as one of the game's keenest minds, a coach obsessed with detail and blessed with a special gift for analysis.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Among the candidates for Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh seems keenest to abandon the current regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Not surprisingly, those countries keenest to see it deployed quickly - including Poland and Finland- are those geographically closest to Russia.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025
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
The man stopped eating, and regarded me with the keenest scrutiny and the greatest surprise.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
As the truck made its way across the square, women and children spilled out of their houses, sat down in the dirt, and keened.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2015
The children screamed hysterically at the first sight of the needle and their mothers, waiting in the anteroom, threw their shawls over their heads and keened loudly as if wailing for the dead.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
The keening chorus is anchored by Roger Troutman, who enjoyed a series of 1980s hits with sprays of talk-box-warped vocals, while the blasting beat was produced by Dr. Dre, the chief architect of G-funk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
But later, in a videotaped hospital reunion with her parents in which she was blocked from view, the young woman’s audible sobs turned to wild, wordless keening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
In the distance, the sound of keening began.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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