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Six example sentences with pugnacious, each labelled with its topic.
The new member was so pugnacious in committee that even allies stopped sitting beside her at the long hearings.
Politics
Dickens gave the innkeeper a pugnacious streak, so every chapter in that house opens with a shouted disagreement.
Literature
Forum moderators muted the most pugnacious players, who turned every patch note into a thread of insults.
Gaming
The pugnacious point guard picked a shouting match with the referee before the first quarter was three minutes old.
Basketball
Schopenhauer was famously pugnacious in print, quarrelling with Hegel in prefaces that had nothing to do with Hegel.
Philosophy
A pugnacious chief executive turned every earnings call into an argument with whichever analyst asked the first question.
Business
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