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Jovovich plays Gray Alys, a wish-granting, face-tattooed witch who is being hunted by a crew of religious zealots, crypto monarchs and bulk-rate CGI skeleton zombies.—
Adam Graham/The Detroit News,
Boston Herald,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Anti-natural gas zealots also conveniently leave out that even all-electric customers are reliant on fossil fuels: 74% of electricity generation in our transmission region is powered by natural gas, coal or oil.—
Dawn White,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Mar. 2025
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Its devotees include Gwyneth Paltrow, Emily Ratajkowski (who seems to be especially fond of Silk Laundry’s Long Bias Cut Skirt, having sported it many, many times), and even Jake Gyllenhaal (who put the Twill Boyfriend Shirt on display during an SNL monologue).—
Stacia Datskovska,
WWD,
15 Mar. 2025
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The brand now counts Katie Holmes and Kate Moss among its A-list devotees.—
Ian Malone,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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Cardi, a fan of the show, teased the trailer wearing a very mid-aughts hair color combo that would've been right at home on Hayley Williams or the local skate park.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
10 Mar. 2025
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Even Eisenhower, who was no fan of McCarthy’s slash-and-burn methods, hesitated to speak out against him, for fear of splintering a fragile Republican coalition.—
Beverly Gage,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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The film begins with the league’s sole enthusiast, Franny (Cliff Blake), settling onto the grass with his portable card table, his pocket binoculars, and his scorecard; slowly, the players begin to dribble onto the field.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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This attention to detail creates experiences that keep critics and food enthusiasts coming back for more.—
Jill Barth,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Dragon types, for example, get individual entries but all cultists are filed in the same entry.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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The ongoing Escape From Tarkov event is moving at a rapid pace after launching a few days ago, with cultists invading all maps with some serious loot in their pockets.—
Mike Stubbs,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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Tatlin scholarship is whispery on his time in Kyiv, for the excellent reason that Stalin’s minions torched most evidence of it.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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But the largest driving force behind the return-to-work mandates, suggest the early scholarship, is CEOs feeling lonely without minions.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Founding Fathers knew of the fate of the 3,000 idolaters who prayed at the golden calf while Moses conversed with God on Mount Sinai, and of the money-changers driven from the Temple by Jesus.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2024
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Throngs of idolaters gather just to watch the team buses arrive.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2024
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In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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Back in Montana, every trip Jacob and company take to Bozeman and back is inevitably fraught with peril — if not instigated by dastardly rich guy Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) and/or his henchman Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), then by the pitiless nature of extreme weather.—
Matt Brennan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Groveler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groveler. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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