Toward the end, the targets of their humor had grown pricklier.
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A longer, pricklier trade war and stiff Chinese resistance to economic reforms could result.
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Yet, this feeling can't be shaken free from the pricklier aspects that come with college athletics.
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This is a bit pricklier than the last bug-shaving story, largely because scientists didn't shave hair.
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I'm a bit pricklier about rain because I'm made of cloth — don't you hate when you get rained on?
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Gains by Democrats in the mid-terms could lead to pricklier supervision and more zealous enforcement of Dodd-Frank provisions.
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With a stronger hand this time round, he can tackle pricklier issues that will charge a sluggish economy, and his legacy.
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As it becomes harder to keep the mass detentions under wraps, Chinese officials will probably grow both franker and pricklier about their behaviour.
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This one was not selling baggy nineties-style skatewear or narrow seventies-style men's neckwear but, rather, a pricklier sort of merchandise: cactuses.
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To wit: As we've seen, a wink face intensifies whatever feeling—positive or negative—the sarcasm conveys, making praise gushier and scorn pricklier.
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With every door Pat opened, with every group of customers bidden goodbye, his humiliation grew pricklier, until it had its own kind of heat.
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Ms. Aharanwa and Ms. Walker are perfectly in sync as Drea and Rebecca, radiant when the dialogue smiles, almost fearsome when things grow pricklier.
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First, the standoff between Washington and Tehran is becoming pricklier, and any lasting Iranian throttling of the Strait of Hormuz would significantly affect supply.
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Ms. Stern and Mr. Feldman revamped the concept to delve into pricklier emotional territory, with the help of the director Andrew Ahn ("Spa Night").
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For those who long for a pricklier age, the seventies have become something like an escapist fantasyland, and, honestly, I can see the appeal.
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Unlike some circumstantial transplants, who find the quirks of living in New York more exasperating than exhilarating, the couple considers even the city's pricklier aspects charming.
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You consume this lumpy raw material and wonder how a pricklier historian and journalist, a Masha Gessen or an Anne Applebaum, might process and deploy it.
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It's in Hollywood's best interest to mold its big-budget projects into something that will appeal not only to Western audiences but to pricklier Chinese crowds too.
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But after the past few months it is the duty of anyone running a multinational firm to consider how to redesign their business for a pricklier, nastier world.
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A notch pricklier than Barris, Anderson has a pugnacious charm and a low tolerance for nonsense: after "Hope" aired, he sparred with critics who called the show racist.
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A graduate of the University of Michigan, Mr. Sloan is known for his sense of humor and for having a pricklier personality at times than the usually pleasant and polished Mr. Stumpf.
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Hans-Georg Maassen, the rebellious spy, has powerful friends, among them his immediate boss, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the leader of the Bavarian conservatives and one of Ms. Merkel's pricklier coalition partners.
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Doubtful. And while Ottawa and Riyadh will probably eventually work this all out, other authoritarians will surely take notice that on Trump's watch there's room to be tougher at home and pricklier abroad.
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In the case of "Roseanne," star Roseanne Barr's status as a blue-collar icon has morphed into something pricklier, given her outspoken support of President Trump and embrace of conspiracy theories via social media.
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They're going to have to figure out exactly how much to boost both defense and non-defense spending — and there could be an even pricklier fight about whether those increases should be offset by tax increases or spending cuts elsewhere.
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Even as "great power competition" talk takes hold and U.S.-China relations grow pricklier than ever, that relationship's nuclear hazards pale next to where they might be if the Trump administration and the Russian government allow New START to expire in two years.
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In recent years, Roberts, who'll be seen on screens both big and small this fall (in Amazon's thriller series Homecoming out today and December's family drama Ben Is Back), may have finally found a way to shed that cloying description by embracing a pricklier persona.
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Steven Pinker has proposed a phonotactic explanation for the conversion of nuclear to nucular: the unusual and disfavored sequence is gradually transformed to a more acceptable configuration via metathesis. However, Arnold Zwicky notes that presents no difficulty for English speakers in words such as pricklier. He also regards the proposition of metathesis as unnecessary. Zwicky suggests a morphological origin, combining the slang nuke with the common sequence -cular (molecular, particular, etc.).
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According to Scram magazine's Kim Cooper, "Just because you write the smartest pop lyrics of your generation, and have a master angler's facility with hooks, and a few thousand people love what you do, that doesn't mean anything. Scott learned that in the nineties, and left the gentle fields of Game Theory for pricklier experiments as the Loud Family." Although they were praised by critics and fellow musicians – notably Aimee Mann and Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields – and adored by a small fan base, mainstream success eluded the band throughout the 1990s. Though this may have been connected, in part, to lingering association with Game Theory's connections to the no-longer-hip 1980s "college rock" scene, it was more likely due to the group's complex, unpredictable song structures, and to Miller's cryptic lyrics, which tended to place rock's standard lyrical concerns (love, heartbreak, alienation, nascent spirituality, etc.) within the much-wider contexts of modernist literature, politics, art history, semiotics, relativity and contemporary academic sociocultural theory.
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