beamish

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Recent Examples of beamish Her Dorian is beamish until besmirched. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 That’s not the fault of the beamish, resourceful Ross, who, as a recent Evan Hansen, has experience portraying liars. Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beamish
Adjective
  • Even moderately keen cornering produces body roll and would bring doubtless admonition from the rear seats.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And the all-boffo, all-the-time production is exhausting (which is doubtless why the rare quiet moments stand out).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • Not sure how to get around Austin for the MLS All-Star match?
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 24 July 2025
  • The two hooked up during a spring break trip to Cabo, Mexico — a moment that’s sure to stir up drama as season 3 unfolds.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Experts are over 14 times more likely than light users to apply AI across all three phases and are twice as confident in the quality of their output.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
  • While there are some things for the Lions to overcome this season, Newton is confident in their ability to do so.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • If the number is negative, there are fewer jobs than in the previous month; if the number is positive, there are more jobs.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Police need to engage these teens in positive ways, apart from arriving at the scene of another shooting.
    Wamara Mwine, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • Rest assured, there’s plenty here for longtime fans, but the game leans into its own identity, content to both look and play like no other DK game before it.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
  • Stewart has made an assured mess: a bleary, florid and sometimes lyrical film that could stand to be doused by a bucket of ice water.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Curiously, the two players who were decisive in last night’s tie, Coll and Bonmati, were the two major issues for Spain in the run-up to and during these Euros.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 24 July 2025
  • The decisive feature that demonstrates the fossil was likely an early arachnid is the unique organization of the brain -- a reverse of the front-to-back arrangement found in present-day crustaceans, insects, centipedes and horseshoe crabs, the researchers said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Short-term momentum has been improving for several days, and the daily stochastics have a bullish ‘pop’ in support of near-term upside follow-through.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 21 July 2025
  • Bitcoin has dropped slightly after hitting an all-time high of $123,000 per bitcoin last week (even as U.S. president Donald Trump issues a bullish bitcoin prediction).
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • But its guiding principle this time is not idealism but realism, with an unhesitating embrace of national interests and increased recourse to power politics.
    Sarang Shidore, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Proulx is an unhesitating observer of people and places, neither idealizing nor villainizing, but her acuity depends on a certain distance.
    Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023

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“Beamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamish. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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