keen
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The breakout success of singles like “La Diabla” and “La Victima” first helped Xavi find his stride in romantic tumbados, anchored by a keen requinto.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 21, 2026
“But candidates like Talarico are changing that. His theological acumen and keen ability to use the language of the New Testament to disarm bad-faith religious attacks is showing a new way forward.”
From Salon β Sep. 21, 2026
We are keen to get this sorted once and for all.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 21, 2026
The FA has been keen to stress that this assessment is a standard process, rather than an indication of wider concern or alarm about England's third-place finish.
From BBC β Sep. 17, 2026
The wounded badger had seized the blade regardless of its keen edge.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Dr Caulfield said she was "delighted” to see Róis “proudly performing her keens to full houses, with no shame or stigmatisation involved, just audiences loving her bravery and skill".
From BBC β Dec. 31, 2025
Benjamin Wallfisch’s score keens and groans ominously, sometimes dipping into synthy electronic moments.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 14, 2024
Behind the action a stringed instrument keens in a low register and a piano riff trembles in a gentle minor key.
From Salon β Jan. 3, 2021
She’s got a beaten-up suitcase at her feet and keens softly into her lap.
From Seattle Times β Aug. 14, 2019
“This is the thing my blood keens for—to protect something worth protecting.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.
From Barron's β Jan. 25, 2026
The magic is unique and often biological—many characters have mental or physical enhancements that give them perfect memory or keener senses.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 12, 2025
What they were keener to talk about was life in Henderson, a city they’d lived in and loved for a long time now—including for the MMA connection.
From Slate β Oct. 31, 2024
Maybe he now possesses a keener understanding of Martha.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 30, 2024
Arthur had found that this made people keener on fighting in the new way of Right, if they had to tell about it afterwards.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The party congress offers a rare glimpse into the structure of political power in North Korea, which remains highly secretive even to the keenest watchers.
From BBC β Feb. 22, 2026
But niche pleasures, for those who partake in them, are often the keenest.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 28, 2025
For our money, Jim is both the funniest and keenest politics writer in the United States—which is to say, readers, your long national nightmare is over!
From Slate β Aug. 30, 2025
Among the keenest observers of the test flights in Texas is Nasa.
From BBC β Jun. 6, 2024
I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Amid the nonstop drumbeat of hundreds of feet walking together, bagpipes keened, striking an appropriately dignified tone.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 19, 2022
But whether the wind produced a lion’s roar, or merely keened or whistled or hummed, at its peak it was clocked by the National Weather Service at Reagan National Airport at 29 mph.
From Washington Post β Feb. 29, 2020
As the truck made its way across the square, women and children spilled out of their houses, sat down in the dirt, and keened.
From The New Yorker β Jan. 12, 2015
The metal structure keened its mournful note again.
From The Guardian β Mar. 18, 2013
When he cradled him in both hands, J.W. keened and moaned but didn’t thrash.
From "The Teacherβs Funeral" by Richard Peck