adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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The Brotherhood provided the moral climate in which more strident cultures could flourish.
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Her own children were much more strident .
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The Dreikaiserbund was again renewed in 1884, but panslavism was becoming more strident .
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The most strident noise was the beep-beep of small motor-scooters which were becoming increasingly popular.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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strident critics
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the strident demands of the American media
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the older Matthew Arnold has little with which to correct the strident exaggeration of youth.
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In reality, taking ownership of benefits and breakthroughs is pitched at a lower and less strident key.
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Instead, they will be replaced with a magazine with a less strident and more caring title-Dialog.
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Middle-class moralists might be ardent, even strident , but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent.
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One may hope that this forceful advocacy can remain in most instances persuasive and considered rather than strident .
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There was much humour, of a strident , bitter sort.