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Recent Examples of hair-trigger
The building is infamously stubborn, with decades-old antibodies on hair-trigger alert for anything too radical.
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Colin Demarest, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
For all its Formula One credentials, for all its flashy virility and hair-trigger handling, the McLaren also sets a new supercar standard for inner peace.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
Other than that explosive, hair-trigger temper evidenced above.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Morrissey ordered more tests to determine whether Baldwin’s gun had a hair-trigger, as the defense team suggested.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
Granted, two blips don’t make a trend, even in the hair-trigger world of contemporary Web journalism.
—Michael Cieply, Deadline, 1 July 2024
Explain your concerns about the man’s hair-trigger temper and your worry that her child could be caught in the middle of one of his violent episodes — or injured or killed if his fury is aimed directly at the child.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Garland’s button-pushing feature seems all too plausible given the climate of hair-trigger anger and bitterness in which America exists today.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
An Adam Sandler character is usually, if belatedly, all about growing up — and changing for the better, even if, as with Billy's journey, that process comes yoked with streaks of hair-trigger hostility and self-doubt.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
Colin Demarest, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
For all its Formula One credentials, for all its flashy virility and hair-trigger handling, the McLaren also sets a new supercar standard for inner peace.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
Other than that explosive, hair-trigger temper evidenced above.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Morrissey ordered more tests to determine whether Baldwin’s gun had a hair-trigger, as the defense team suggested.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
Granted, two blips don’t make a trend, even in the hair-trigger world of contemporary Web journalism.
—Michael Cieply, Deadline, 1 July 2024
Explain your concerns about the man’s hair-trigger temper and your worry that her child could be caught in the middle of one of his violent episodes — or injured or killed if his fury is aimed directly at the child.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Garland’s button-pushing feature seems all too plausible given the climate of hair-trigger anger and bitterness in which America exists today.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
An Adam Sandler character is usually, if belatedly, all about growing up — and changing for the better, even if, as with Billy's journey, that process comes yoked with streaks of hair-trigger hostility and self-doubt.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hair-trigger
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In contrast, vulnerable narcissistic leaders are insecure, hypersensitive to feedback, and prone to emotional volatility (e.g., Richard Nixon, Christina Kirchner, Vladimir Putin, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs).Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sensitivity to cold: After frostbite, the affected areas may become hypersensitive to cold, making future cold exposure more uncomfortable.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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Whitney Fields, 38, from Austin, was fed up with contacts scratching her supersensitive eyes.Julia Ries, SELF, 9 Sep. 2024
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The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.James Mackintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021
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The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
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These young ideas rarely do — and the invaluable lesson that students glean from that realization will be lost forever if administrators cut them off at the knees by continuing to appease oversensitive cry-bullies whose antics threaten these vital sandboxes.Brian Anderson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
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But finding the precise moment or desired play on the tape was challenging.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2024
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The realistic virtual loudspeaker setups with the new and interactive GUI lets engineers make precise mix decisions on headphones with a better level of accuracy and spatial localization.Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Hair-trigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hair-trigger. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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