authoritativeness

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Noun
  • Collaborating with high-profile influencers who genuinely align with their brand values allows companies to authentically engage potential customers, all while building trust and credibility.
    Joshua Adragna, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The balance between mercy and accountability has always been delicate, but when that balance is disrupted without due process, the credibility of the entire system is weakened.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Recently, it was revealed that Tommy Zeigler, who spent 48 years on Florida’s death row, may be exonerated thanks to new DNA evidence that challenges the validity of his 1976 conviction.
    Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Israel also shortened the validity of all visas for UNRWA’s international staff to Wednesday, the UN said.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There were other forecasters who even saw Eilish getting both, given her prior recent Grammy dominance.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The technological barriers that were supposed to protect America’s AI dominance, from advanced chips to massive data centers, are more mirage than fortress.
    Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The guy the American masses met in 2009 had already worked out a sound, approaching the sad-robot pop of Ye’s 808s & Heartbreak from the chilly arrogance of boardroom Jay. Hip-hop heads didn’t always respect the swing of the pendulum, though.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Sheer arrogance, headed straight for the trash can, unopened.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There also have been business leaders with huge influence on presidents, Chervinsky noted.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
  • His influence on the musical landscape with the New York Dolls is indelible, and his career as an actor and an artist has touched many people around the world.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Fortunately, Ruth has an elegant hauteur to call on in these situations.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
  • They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums.
    Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.
    Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Iris’ instincts are right on the nose: Everyone treats her with a pleasant but unnerving condescension.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • You and your drinking and your wallowing and your endless crippling condescension.
    Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Authoritativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authoritativeness. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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