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Recent Examples of trenchant Though the original film in the Purge franchise had deeply trenchant messaging, subsequent sequels have become even more political, with deep warnings about inequality, systemic abuse and racial injustice. Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 1 Oct. 2024 Looming over all of this is Netflix, one of the first subscription streaming services and the first to figure out most of the trenchant questions facing the industry, while growing to 290 million subscribers worldwide. David Bloom, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 As a result, those earlier, more trenchant observations about Frida’s plight are underbaked by the story’s end. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2024 But this time around, in Industry’s most thematically cohesive outing yet, creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay have woven together each character’s storyline with a trenchant critique of capitalism that brands itself as benevolent. Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for trenchant 

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“Trenchant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trenchant. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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