gnarly
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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
No matter how gnarly the form and finish, there’s always a whiff of the precious and the cute—or, in the case of avant-garde “sculptural” jewelry, the pretentious or vainglorious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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
Dirt fell from the ceiling as she tugged the slender glass tube free from the gnarly hand jutting out from the ceiling.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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 gnarlier control issue arises if robots are rude in the service of a societal, rather than personal, goal.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2021
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
The roots, which she had not seen properly until now, were large and pale like daikon, though much gnarlier and bristling with a mess of shaggy tendrils.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016
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
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
Birth is the most gnarliest thing of life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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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