trenchant
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He has trenchant critics, and potential rivals, but still has approval ratings of which most western leaders can only dream.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
But he offers the trenchant point that it intersperses high-intensity plays with huddled breaks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Smith understood how her features cut into and through a role – wide eyes amply lidded, trenchant cheekbones, features that one might associate with snobbery.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024
Her work builds on a simple but trenchant observation: In the long history of Western painting, monumental portraits of Black women are almost nonexistent.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024
A number of his most trenchant satires are directed against George III., who, after examining some of Gillray’s sketches, said, with characteristic ignorance and blindness to merit, “I don’t understand these caricatures.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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