bristling

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A few blocks away, members of another branch of the House of Rothschild were bristling over the reputational knock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

That was the same year as his no-holds-barred memoir Spare and a year after the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary, both bristling with controversial views on the Royal Family.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

Messi and his team-mates will head into the final bristling with confidence after another ruthless, high-scoring demolition job that followed on from their 4-0 drubbing of FC Cincinnati in the previous round.

From Barron's • Nov. 30, 2025

When someone came near them, tiny spikes of metal rolled up and down the grocery cart like bristling fur.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi