bristling
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But Lissie Harper said that she was "beyond appalled and bristling with anger to hear that Andrew's killers are soon to be free to roam the streets".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
High overhead, military aircraft bristling with antennas and probes scan surrounding waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026
This idea caught on, even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending in prepositions.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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