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strains
noun as in pain, due to exertion
noun as in ancestry
noun as in suggestion, hint
verb as in stretch, often to limit
verb as in work very hard
Example Sentences
Yet financial strains have been intensifying.
In 2019, going by his byline of “Mike Ma,” he self-published a novel called “Harassment Architecture,” which glorifies those lone-wolf acts of terror, picking up on strains of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who expressed fears about the future “greenhouse effect” and disavowed modernity and its consumerist culture.
One could read into this a subtextual commentary on the subjugation of women found in conservative strains of what Reed refers to as “the big three” — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — or even society in general.
There are now two strains of H5N1 bird flu circulating in California.
Both strains are H5N1; they just followed slightly different evolutionary trajectories, which is reflected in their genetic sequence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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