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Stridency

British pronunciation/stɹˈa‍ɪdnsi/
American pronunciation/ˈstɹaɪdənsi/
Stridency
[NOUN]
1

having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound

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1That helps, surely, to account for some of the stridency of the Greek polemic with their rivals.
2But the case of Turkey is special because Attaturk, whom you can read about, becomes the visionary president of a new Turkey, of a secularized Turkey, and does not go the way, for all occasional stridency, of this sort of Europe of little dictators, the Eastern and Central Europe of little dictators.
3And then the fact that like, you know, we’d worked really hard on certain things, that the stridency of the opposition went way beyond what I knew the other people actually thought.
4And she had a kind of curated feminism on women's issues, which is to say she wanted to feature and highlight professional women, but she didn't like stridency of any kind.
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