stridency
Example Sentences
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What's driving this increased stridency among the public?
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
"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
“A widespread and punitive stridency descending on us from every quarter,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
I was either hard-driving and angry or, with my garden and messages about healthy eating, I was a disappointment to feminists, lacking a certain stridency.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
