gnarly
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Preparing for a gnarly thunderstorm that would probably wipe out our power?
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 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
Nor are members choosing to resign instead of waiting for a gnarly Ethics Committee report to drop.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
I want to talk about some of the procedures and cases that we’ll see this season because they’re pretty gnarly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
As the mouth came closer, my eyes went straight to the huge, serrated teeth, gnarly and sticking out at different angles.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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That was already outdated, and it feels even sillier after the worst day for U.S. stocks in a few years turned out to be an even gnarlier Bitcoin day as a matter of percentage losses.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
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
And so Ms. Hynes is perhaps the ideal person to remind the world about Tom Murphy, the spiritual forebear of this younger, gnarlier cohort.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2012
People are trying to do something gnarlier to outdo the next person.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2011
Skateboarders are trying to pull off their gnarliest trick: saving San Francisco’s most hated monument from extinction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
“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
Vadi reminisces about the music he learned from skate videos as well as the videos themselves, compilations of skaters’ best tricks — and, of course, some of their gnarliest falls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
Professional surfers live a nomadic, unusual lifestyle; the very best trot across the globe in search of the gnarliest waves.
From Washington Post
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