stridency
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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 criticized the stridency and “relentless freedom from doubt” in Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s ruling opinion.
From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 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
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
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