stridency
Example Sentences
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What's driving this increased stridency among the public?
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
I was hoping the music would reveal softer qualities in Albin’s nature, but Cahoon’s singing only continued the comic stridency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
"In my judgement, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency," she wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
The band added stridency to the song’s inherent mystery, Greene illuminating it with a marathon soprano sax solo.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2022
It is not as though I had expected an apology from her, but the stridency of this reply did, I must say, take me aback a little.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
