poignant
Example Sentences
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That is especially poignant as the company’s bitter AI rival Anthropic is capturing market share and seeing a rapidly rising valuation in a race with OpenAI to go public.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Section 2 comes out of one of the most poignant exemplars of patriotism and love of country I can point to in our history.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026
Roper says a local pub landlord raised money for the headstone and chose the words to place on it: "It's quite... poignant that those words were chosen because it was some mother's son."
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
That painting was especially poignant for its connection to Gitter’s work as a retinal surgeon in New Orleans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The drawing is striking, well executed, poignant, melancholic, beautiful—but not in a traditional sense.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Vocabulary lists containing poignant
Grade 12, List 1
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 7
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