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
He added that increased Soviet stridency and aggressiveness suggested the behavior of “a wounded bear.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
Older people were overwhelmed by the youthful revolution’s stridency and chaos, Al Aswany says, and were primed to believe propaganda that claimed the election held no promise of true democracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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
