keen
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The company was keen to flag that the guidance upgrade was mainly due to a strong U.S. performance of its key asset, Bimzelx, the analysts added.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 22, 2026
But Olympic Council of Asia director general Husain al-Musallam was keen to highlight the 54 new world records achieved at the Games - in swimming, weightlifting, and shooting - as proof they were a hit.
From BBC β Oct. 21, 2026
For all the derision heaped upon Sofia’s keen directorial eye and scrupulous vision, a behind-the-scenes look only makes the details all the more impressive.
From Salon β Oct. 20, 2026
My late partner, “Daniel,” kept the radio on a classical station all day, and he was a keen gardener.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 20, 2026
Rita had a keen mind, yet those close to her thought that her judgment was impaired by what one person described as “a love that was truly blind.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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 β Dec. 31, 2025
Benjamin Wallfisch’s score keens and groans ominously, sometimes dipping into synthy electronic moments.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 14, 2024
Behind the action a stringed instrument keens in a low register and a piano riff trembles in a gentle minor key.
From Salon β Jan. 3, 2021
She’s got a beaten-up suitcase at her feet and keens softly into her lap.
From Seattle Times β Aug. 14, 2019
“This is the thing my blood keens for—to protect something worth protecting.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.
From Barron's β 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 β Dec. 12, 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 β Oct. 31, 2024
Maybe he now possesses a keener understanding of Martha.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 30, 2024
Mr. Darcy’s shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister’s sufferings.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
When Donald Trump speaks, financial traders are among the keenest listeners.
From BBC β Aug. 4, 2026
Tennis is a sport that rewards our keenest attention.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 3, 2026
Among the candidates for Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh seems keenest to abandon the current regime.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 18, 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 β Aug. 30, 2025
“I was absorbed, sir: yes, and I was happy. To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
Amid the nonstop drumbeat of hundreds of feet walking together, bagpipes keened, striking an appropriately dignified tone.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 19, 2022
“My boy, my little boy, come home to us, my little boy,” she keened over the body.
From New York Times β 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 β Feb. 29, 2020
Well, the souls howled and keened, as distressed souls are known to do, since they understood that a garden that nobody visited was not worth cultivating.
From The New Yorker β Apr. 22, 2019
But the way they keened their beaks forward and menacingly opened their wings made them look as though they might.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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 β Aug. 21, 2026
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 24, 2026
The tone of his voice is high, a keening sound.
From BBC β Oct. 19, 2024
In these wondrously transporting images of juddering waves and swirling particles, accompanied by the rumbling, surging, keening strains of Ludwig Göransson’s magnificent score, Nolan makes a rare leap into realms of pure cinematic abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 19, 2023
The fairy blanched, then screamed, a high keening horrible sound.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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