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Meanings of trenchant in English
Characterized by or full of force and vigor.
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Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect.
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Examples for "searching"
Examples for "searching"
1
Euro zone crisis is still searching the solution to the Greek problem.
2
State authorities said soldiers and state police were searching for the gunmen.
3
Google has by far the strongest position in Web searching in Europe.
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This should help users better understand and remember the words they're searching.
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I ran from problem to problem searching for the highest- scoring climbs.
Usage of trenchant in English
1
A second less and the trenchant blade had shorne through his heart.
2
The goddess of wisdom was her formidable and trenchant mother, Lady Spencer.
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You could give us a trenchant essay on the Ingratitude of Man.
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Give me a trenchant statesman, or I pray you leave legislation alone.
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The satire here is smart and trenchant, if perhaps a little one-sided.
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But Marcion had also doctrines of his own, sharp, trenchant, and startling.
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Elected moderator in 1981, Dr Girvan was a trenchant critic of loyalist violence.
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A few of the subjects which the author discusses in trenchant fashion are:
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The President replied offhand with trenchant advice to the bearer, who was unmarried:
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Her wide artist-eyes had seen and sensed the whole trenchant and essential difference.
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Maybe even this kind of trenchant commentary is what led to his downfall.
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Like Ulysses of old, he swung the axe with trenchant power and skill.
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Numerous trenchant political articles issued from his pen during the next two years.
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Knell had cut out with the trenchant call, and stood ready.
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If they were sometimes trenchant, the blade was of fine temper.
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He admired Pascal, but only for his exquisite style and his trenchant irony.
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Trenchant through the time
Trenchant across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common