Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a piercing manner; with penetrating force or effect; sharply.
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- adverb In a
piercing manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb extremely and sharply
- adverb in a shrill voice
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Examples
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But even as it dropped, before Longstreth could leap, as he surely intended, for the gun, Duane covered him, called piercingly to him:
The Lone Star Ranger 1914
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It's altogether superior to Oliver Stone's hollow Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and in the same class as Charles Ferguson's revealing, piercingly intelligent documentary Inside Job.
Margin Call – review 2012
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El-Erian piercingly dubbed the $2 trillion "a form of self insurance in an uncertain world," insurance against a double-dip that El-Erian put at a 30% likelihood.
The New World Order Of Global Markets Robert Lenzner 2010
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El-Erian piercingly dubbed the $2 trillion "a form of self insurance in an uncertain world," insurance against a double-dip that El-Erian put at a 30% likelihood.
The New World Order Of Global Markets Robert Lenzner 2010
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El-Erian piercingly dubbed the $2 trillion "a form of self insurance in an uncertain world," insurance against a double-dip that El-Erian put at a 30% likelihood.
The New World Order Of Global Markets Robert Lenzner 2010
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In fact everything in that letter is important; or rather, it has become important by its being written down, has become so piercingly important, even if only to me, that the scrapbook that letter is in, along with my mother's Christmas book, are things I'd walk into a burning house to rescue.
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Yet he is still a great writer, and "Dancing at Lughnasa" is as piercingly, permanently enthralling as ever.
The Not-So-Small World of Brian Friel Terry Teachout 2011
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El-Erian piercingly dubbed the $2 trillion "a form of self insurance in an uncertain world," insurance against a double-dip that El-Erian put at a 30% likelihood.
The New World Order Of Global Markets Robert Lenzner 2010
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What's comical at one moment may suddenly morph into something rueful, farcical, piercingly painful or inexplicably graceful.
'Descendants' Has the Genes of a Classic Joe Morgenstern 2011
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El-Erian piercingly dubbed the $2 trillion "a form of self insurance in an uncertain world," insurance against a double-dip that El-Erian put at a 30% likelihood.
The New World Order Of Global Markets Robert Lenzner 2010
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