saltatory

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Adjective
  • There are even grief counselors and social workers who specialize in sudden loss.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Fans were devastated by news of Morrison’s sudden and unexpected death at age 27.
    Makena Gera, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • As President-elect Trump approaches the second half of his discontinuous presidency, Americans seem cool to his signature economic proposal: steep new tariffs on America’s most important trading partners.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • About 19,000 people had to flee the city, which is in an area with discontinuous permafrost.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The abrupt shift can be quite violent, as both dry ice (composed of carbon dioxide) and regular ice (made of water) become much weaker and begin to break.
    Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Kimbell’s abrupt retirement was greeted positively by investors, who sent shares of Ulta up 3.9 percent to $448 in after-hours trading on Monday.
    Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But, much to the surprise of analysts, society has stoically tolerated an acute recession, a substantial jump in poverty, and a weakening labor market.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • But these apps’ ascendance does reveal an acute desire from Americans to find their next social media destination; their general wariness about TikTok’s top American competitors; and their discontent with a ban that many see as paternalistic.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Saltatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saltatory. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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