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Discerning

showing good judgment; discriminating; judicious; tasteful

Inc. Magazine

@inc.com

You might not be as discerning about diet drinks as you think. https://trib.al/DHRhDX6

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Plastic

looking or tasting artificial; superficial; false; fake easily shaped or molded

TWO TIME.

@jackstauberlyrics.bsky.social

With sharpened stakes and plastic fakes

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Proclivity

a tendency to choose to do something (regularly usually)

Wide Awake 👁

@hellomanjpg.bsky.social

they should call him Donald Duck on account of his proclivity for "ducking" the tough questions!!

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Surly

rude or bad tempered (less strong that irascible); moody; sulky used to describe someone who is purposefully ignoring or being a bit rude

Jake Wright

@bcnjake.bsky.social

LES SNEAD: My "the unusually surly coach absolutely loves our draft pick that we collaborated on because we always collaborate together like true collaborators" statement is raising a lot of questions already answered by my statement.

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Upbraid

to find fault with someone; to rebuke or scold someone (not as strong as castigate, stronger than chide); admonish; rebuke; reproach; lambast; berate

WordBot

@wordbot.bsky.social

Word of the Hour: Reproach - To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay

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Pungent

1. a really bad smell or nasty taste; caustic; bitting; tart; sharp 2. can also be used when describing a comment that is sarcastic, scathing, sharp or mean comment.

@derbyshirelive.co.uk

There's no bread, like your conventional bakers - the focus is very much on sweet treets and pungent coffee

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Prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way (with the intent to deceive); to lie

Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️

@lvtyimby.bsky.social

Ancaps are completely unserious because their defense for not stealing the bread of a baker is that it was due to their labor and is therefore "theirs," but their defense of land ownership can't be universalized from their "don't steal the baker's bread" rule so they prevaricate.

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Juncture

1. a particular point or event in time; point (in time); moment (in time); 2. a place where things join

@secureyourstack.bsky.social

Building Your Foundation: Core Finance SOPs for Small Business

Every successful small business reaches a critical juncture where informal financial processes begin to create more p...

https://secureyourstack.1450enterprises.com/building-your-foundation-core-finance-sops-for-small-business/

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Exacerbate

to make something worse; to make something more severe (often used in reference to feelings, illness or disease)

News by babygoldie

@babygoldie.bsky.social

[1/3] 2026-04-25 11:49:11 - [Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The EU’s new round of sanctions and loans to Ukraine will exacerbate its own difficulties] The EU passed the 20th round of sanctions against Russia on the 23rd, adding 36 new measures such as oil exploration, mining,

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Opaque

not able to be seen through; not transparent; impenetrable to light hard to understand; not clear

@aichina.news

Apache-2.0 clears the commercial path, yet the opaque "30M-32M" naming obscures the training mix. Hard to trust edge agents without a public eval against Llama-3-8B; does anyone on Ascend have real-world numbers to contradict this?

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