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Unlike earlier standouts, most recent Marvel films are more interested in threading the past to its future than doing something exciting in the present.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Quiz: from 1964 to the present, which major Republican candidate for president was NOT charged with this sobriquet?
—Walter E Block, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
While the loan fee counts towards the present three-year rolling PSR period, the €14.5million sale can be banked by Newcastle for their 2025-26 accounts and gives their summer kitty a healthy (and welcome) boost.
—Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
The Yellowjackets are at a turning point, both in 1996 and the present day.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Quiz: from 1964 to the present, which major Republican candidate for president was NOT charged with this sobriquet?
—Walter E Block, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
While the loan fee counts towards the present three-year rolling PSR period, the €14.5million sale can be banked by Newcastle for their 2025-26 accounts and gives their summer kitty a healthy (and welcome) boost.
—Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
The Yellowjackets are at a turning point, both in 1996 and the present day.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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