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Jeff Zucker, the company’s chief executive during Mr. Trump’s first term, leaned hard into accountability coverage of the Trump administration and aired strident on-air criticism of the president during prime-time opinion shows.—
Benjamin Mullin,
New York Times,
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Meanwhile, Kennedy, a strident anti-vaccine activist, also appeared to be on a surprisingly smooth path after the Senate voted 53-47 to move forward with his confirmation.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
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After a two-year hiatus, South Park is gearing up for a raucous return, with the season 27 trailer indicating that things are about to get even crazier.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Fans seemed ready to make Sutter Health Park a raucous home atmosphere.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Compounding the issue is the global flow of goods coming to a screeching halt if the economy worsens.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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However, the honeymoon phase comes to a screeching halt on April 7, when Venus joins Saturn in a pragmatic conjunction.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The result is a cacophonous temper tantrum, a vacuous and perfidious advertisement for military recruitment.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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Of the collection, Sundy Praia is the most luxurious, with 15 tented villas set where the cacophonous jungle meets the tawny coast.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Mar. 2025
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But regolith presents a significant issue for lunar hardware, spacesuits and human lungs, because the dust is so abrasive.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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There’s lots of peaks and valleys, and the wind moves so quickly and the weather is so abrasive that no vegetation can grow much higher than knee-height.—
Meaghan Garvey,
Pitchfork,
3 Apr. 2025
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The crescent shape of the new condo tower and its jarring proximity, combined with the formerly soothing prevailing breeze, creates a wind tunnel that rakes across the north side of Building 3 and the driveway entrance, knocking down patio furniture, annihilating hairdos and slamming car doors.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
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In jarring contrast to the polymetrics, with their accessible freshness and ingratiating openness, stand the four long poems that constitute the second section of the Liber: two wedding hymns, the mini-epic about the nuptials of Achilles’ parents, and the castrato tour de force.—
Daniel Mendelsohn,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Today, on Trump’s Liberation Day, consumer-smacking tariffs—described by some as the biggest tax hike in global history—serve as a reminder of these discordant notes.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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You’re Cordially Invited might have been better off ditching the rom of it all entirely, but Stoller is good enough at this that even if the rest of his movie consists of two slightly discordant halves, both are pretty solid.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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