keen
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Among the Canadian firms keen on cash at the summit is Deep Sky, a Montreal-based company that develops carbon-removal projects.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 11, 2026
Despite their experiences, the DJs were keen to stress that they did not blame the venues or promoters involved.
From BBC β Sep. 10, 2026
Politics may be less keen on artificial intelligence as actor rather than adviser.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 8, 2026
Many women the BBC spoke to were keen for their partners to take ownership of certain tasks.
From BBC β Sep. 5, 2026
Rita had a keen mind, yet those close to her thought that her judgment was impaired by what one person described as “a love that was truly blind.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Dr Caulfield said she was "delighted” to see Róis “proudly performing her keens to full houses, with no shame or stigmatisation involved, just audiences loving her bravery and skill".
From BBC β Dec. 31, 2025
Benjamin Wallfisch’s score keens and groans ominously, sometimes dipping into synthy electronic moments.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 14, 2024
She’s got a beaten-up suitcase at her feet and keens softly into her lap.
From Seattle Times β Aug. 14, 2019
He has too much of his father in him, the forlorn trumpet of John Williams’ score keens.
From Salon β Jun. 15, 2019
“This is the thing my blood keens for—to protect something worth protecting.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.
From Barron's β Jan. 25, 2026
The magic is unique and often biological—many characters have mental or physical enhancements that give them perfect memory or keener senses.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 12, 2025
What they were keener to talk about was life in Henderson, a city they’d lived in and loved for a long time now—including for the MMA connection.
From Slate β Oct. 31, 2024
Maybe he now possesses a keener understanding of Martha.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 30, 2024
Working in a kitchen every day made you appreciate a keen edge, and this edge was keener than most.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Among the candidates for Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh seems keenest to abandon the current regime.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 18, 2025
For our money, Jim is both the funniest and keenest politics writer in the United States—which is to say, readers, your long national nightmare is over!
From Slate β Aug. 30, 2025
For five years it hosted the country's finest and keenest skateboarders, witnessing flips and tricks as a new subculture boomed in popularity.
From BBC β Aug. 20, 2025
Among the keenest observers of the test flights in Texas is Nasa.
From BBC β Jun. 6, 2024
That said, it is only fair to point out that Wagner's keenest interest was not the fate of the gods but rather what happened to humanity.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
But whether the wind produced a lion’s roar, or merely keened or whistled or hummed, at its peak it was clocked by the National Weather Service at Reagan National Airport at 29 mph.
From Washington Post β Feb. 29, 2020
While the violin lines of “Where Are U Now” keened behind him, his face was slick with sweat.
From Los Angeles Times β May 10, 2015
As the truck made its way across the square, women and children spilled out of their houses, sat down in the dirt, and keened.
From The New Yorker β Jan. 12, 2015
The metal structure keened its mournful note again.
From The Guardian β Mar. 18, 2013
She nursed the baby as she keened and every so often held her up so that Zizmo and God could see what they had done.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The keening chorus is anchored by Roger Troutman, who enjoyed a series of 1980s hits with sprays of talk-box-warped vocals, while the blasting beat was produced by Dr. Dre, the chief architect of G-funk.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
Only a handful of authentic keening songs were recorded from traditional singers, which Róis referenced on the record.
From BBC β Dec. 31, 2025
Shift to Sport mode and the engine will hold at a high, keening rpm, trying to charge the battery faster than the driver can drain it.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 25, 2025
Mr. Sonnier’s virtuoso accordion work and his vocals, by turns keening and supple, infused the country airwaves in the late 1980s with Cajun, rock, swamp-pop and jazz sensibilities.
From New York Times β Jan. 26, 2024
Then the air was cut by a high-pitched keening, rising until my ears ached.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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