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gnarly

[nahr-lee] / ˈnɑr li /


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The landscape was rugged and swampy, filled with insects and dense vegetation that Osinski described as "deep, twisty, gnarly vegetation."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Preparing for a gnarly thunderstorm that would probably wipe out our power?

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

While pandemic skating became more popular, so did some pretty gnarly injuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

A gnarly debate at the center of modern AI research boils down to this: Can a system modeled on the human nervous system ever actually match a human’s abilities?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

It reminded me of the Tree of Power back in MidPass, with its gnarly roots and roof-like branches.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

That was already outdated, and it feels even sillier after the worst day for U.S. stocks in a few years turned out to be an even gnarlier Bitcoin day as a matter of percentage losses.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2024

These intimations of mortality, which I wouldn’t have minded hearing about in even gnarlier detail, suggest cracks in Barbie’s psyche, but also in Barbie Land’s very foundations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

And this practice might have driven the evolution of gnarlier tail clubs, much like how modern elk employ their elaborate antlers not only to tussle with one another but also to impress prospective mates.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

A cessation of hostilities has been declared between Casablancas’s gnarlier meanderings in his side-gig, the Voidz, and the effortless, five-way synchromesh of peak Strokes.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2020

Yet it is getting nastier and gnarlier out there.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2019

Of course, Boritt had devoted much of that life, as a historian, to picking at one of the gnarliest scabs in American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Twenty-six years ago, the Iowa metal band Slipknot arrived at the Malibu studio compound Indigo Ranch to make one of the gnarliest albums of the 1990s in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

“In contrast, this year has so much death metal in the basement. This is the gnarliest Barboza we’ve ever had.”

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

When that rockabilly figure went on his long hiatus, the band morphed into Switchblade, still one of the snarliest, gnarliest bands to come out of D.C.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022

Quarterback Justin Herbert’s high throw to Mike Williams hit the wide receiver’s hands, but Baltimore’s Marlon Humphrey — one of the gnarliest corners in this N.F.L. — was on the spot to rough up Williams.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021




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