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Ani’s fight for their relationship, which turns literal at times, is alternately slapstick and touching.
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Scott Tobias, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Add flour mixture and milk alternately, beating on low after each addition just until combined.
—Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2025
Nor is there any depth whatsoever to a host of support characters played by attractive actors who don’t get to do a lot of acting here, perhaps excepting an alternately lively and too-strenuous Ayden Cross as Shaw’s flatmate Ella.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
More broadly, Trump spent much of the transition period alternately mocking and threatening U.S. allies such as Canada and Panama, including refusing to rule out militarily occupying the Panama Canal.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
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Scott Tobias, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Add flour mixture and milk alternately, beating on low after each addition just until combined.
—Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2025
Nor is there any depth whatsoever to a host of support characters played by attractive actors who don’t get to do a lot of acting here, perhaps excepting an alternately lively and too-strenuous Ayden Cross as Shaw’s flatmate Ella.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
More broadly, Trump spent much of the transition period alternately mocking and threatening U.S. allies such as Canada and Panama, including refusing to rule out militarily occupying the Panama Canal.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Alternately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alternately. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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