keen
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But he also possessed technical expertise, editing chops and a keen sense of story.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 27, 2026
When asked whether there is less pressure on Saliba rushing to get back, Arteta was keen to remind everyone of his quality.
From BBC β Oct. 27, 2026
While the Fed is expected to hold borrowing costs, traders will be keen to get an insight into its thinking following last month's hike and as inflation remains well above its two percent target.
From Barron's β Oct. 26, 2026
One person familiar with the deliberations said that people close to the Trump administration seemed keen to partner with Betancourt’s company because of the privacy and flexibility it offered.
From Salon β Oct. 23, 2026
His eye, bent on me, expressed at once stern surprise and keen inquiry.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
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
A sound I didn’t know I could make keens out of me.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
A startup now wants dogs to have a similar advantage, genetically modifying man’s best friend to make them run faster, have a keener sense of smell and avoid common genetic conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 23, 2026
Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.
From Barron's β Jan. 25, 2026
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
But he was much keener than he was prepared to admit on getting out of this place as soon as possible.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
The event was hosted by Wendy Cutler, a veteran American trade negotiator and one of Washington’s keenest observers of Asian trade policy.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 21, 2026
The party congress offers a rare glimpse into the structure of political power in North Korea, which remains highly secretive even to the keenest watchers.
From BBC β Feb. 22, 2026
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
“I was absorbed, sir: yes, and I was happy. To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
Amid the nonstop drumbeat of hundreds of feet walking together, bagpipes keened, striking an appropriately dignified tone.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 19, 2022
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
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
It was like the whistling of a piccolo many times magnified—shrill and shriller till it keened with the terror of a lost soul and filled the room with the piercingness of itself.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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
They heard the cries of warning of their friends, and the shrill, keening cry of Apolonia, wife of Juan Tomas.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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