trenchant
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He has trenchant critics, and potential rivals, but still has approval ratings of which most western leaders can only dream.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
When Mr. Hart discusses commanders and strategy his views are typically trenchant and insightful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
Perhaps this nihilism will prove too trenchant and reactive for some viewers.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025
Her work builds on a simple but trenchant observation: In the long history of Western painting, monumental portraits of Black women are almost nonexistent.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024
He felt the sentiment would have reached a larger dignity, a more epigrammatick crispness, a more trenchant elusiveness, if it had never strayed beyond the bonds of an heroick couplet.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
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