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Across randomized trials, she preferred the bristled end but switched to the stick end when targeting softer lower-body areas.

There were belligerent whites who bristled at the implication that someone would suggest that something was inherently wrong with them.

Are people that bristled by RMS that they're this obstinate about refusing to call it GNU/Linux?

You can get boar bristled bamboo brushes, though they don't clean as good if you are using a regular (non-electric) toothbrush.

In the interest of commiseration, I'll admit that I found that I bristled at the comment as well.

Yeah, I bristled at his phrasing, until I read the rest of the sentence--then I was in full agreement.

Jonathan Benassaya, the exuberant French founder of StreamNation, bristled at any suggestion that the 250 million photos stored on Picturelife are at risk.

Yet I am willing to bet that your hackles bristled at such a concept.

> Google executives, meantime, also bristled at Apple's refusal to add features that would help Google.

One prominent CEO (I won't name) started posting on social media about the book, the parts of being blunt and direct in feedback, and I bristled.

At oral argument last winter, Justice Kagan bristled at the notion that the Court, rather than Congress, was the proper institution to decide when remedial action in this realm was needed.

A few months ago, I would've bristled at the idea that someone was able to write a mobile app with AI as that is my personal skillset.

Hopefully the worst that most Yahoo employees will have to endure is being "bristled".

For most people, git is that you work with pull requests, and already early on some bristled at the term “patches” which implied an obsolete way of working.

I initially bristled at the word "poaching", since it implies ownership.

I bristled at this kind of prescriptive language dictum for a long time, but eventually I concluded the rule-of-thumb "don't use derogatory metaphors about other people" is often not hard or that big of a deal.