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How to pronounce pugnacious
“pugnacious” pronunciation in real English speech
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“pugnacious” in real sentences
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and later female acts were less pugnacious.
Intelligence Squared
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much more pugnacious on things like benefit cuts.
Sky News
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we've got some particularly pugnacious buzzers Jason Goes
QI
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incredibly loud pugnacious influential conservative host who set so much of the political discourse in
Oxford Union
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