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brusquely

[bruhsk-lee] / ˈbrʌsk li /


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The first time it happened, the day care received an anonymous call from a woman brusquely asking them to open the door.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

He gave her a pointed look, she says, and addressed her brusquely in Swahili: “You’re a Gen Z—come here.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2025

She brusquely replied that a particular leopard routinely came by a path in the hills, passed her house and went “that way.”

From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2023

He’s best known for his BAFTA-awarded 2019 feature “Bait,” a masterful, odd, brusquely stylish drama about economic and family tensions in a present-day Cornish fishing village, old ways deployed to dramatize a modern reality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Papa asked again brusquely, rubbing a hand over his unshaven chin.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper


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