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Adjective
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Ali is a directionless and rebellious 17-year-old girl with an overprotective mother who eventually finds her passion in music after taking piano lessons from an elderly woman in her apartment building.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025 -
Talking about the soul is more rebellious than talking about Marxist revolution.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Sadly, they’re sometimes used because a guardian thinks the dog is being willfully disobedient, rather than examining the underlying issue that’s creating the problem behavior (for example, lack of training or not meeting the dog’s exercise or emotional needs).—
Dawn Kovell,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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At any point, a willingness to be both selfish and disobedient would have saved her.—
Elizabeth Lopatto,
The Verge,
25 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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In matters of texture, cotton, knits, and compelling fabrics arrived in the form of modern corsetry, slick pantsuits, and boisterous dresses in assorted hues.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
7 Feb. 2025
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There’s a profusion of bars in downtown Kansas City that offer boisterous partying and pounding music.—
Jenna Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The 2010s resistance to Trump — that sprawling, seemingly irrepressible mass movement that joined everyone from Bush Republicans to Bernie socialists — was like little else in the modern era.—
Ross Barkan,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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Here, the 18th-century figurehead is a veritable poster child for irrepressible curiosity and joyful problem-solving.—
Erin Douglass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Insomnia is a mark of the insubordinate imagination.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Joey attempts to help Monica gain respect among the insubordinate kitchen staff at her new job, and things don't go well for Rachel when Chandler sets her up on a bad date with a colleague.—
Eric Todisco,
People.com,
15 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Buffalo Wild Wings is getting rowdy ahead of the Super Bowl ... again!—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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Israeli medical professionals advocating for hostages in Gaza warned that chaotic handoffs could trigger traumatic memories of the hostages’ first moments in Gaza, in which militants drove some of them through rowdy crowds.—
Adam Rasgon,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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There’s no real shape to their journey, no unexpected pitfalls or subplots or surprises; even a rambunctious interlude in a modern-day supermarket feels curiously predetermined.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
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There was the lesion, the scans, the meds and the debilitating reactions to too much stimuli, which flared up when his three rambunctious children hit overdrive.—
Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The effect, as customer Dave Harwood of Orlando noted on his way out the door, was not particularly naughty.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 2025
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The film is centered around Kevin McCallister, a naughty 8-year-old who is accidentally left behind at home in Chicago as his family flies to Paris for the Christmas holidays.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Indocile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indocile. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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