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Four professional franchises that play home games within a couple of downtown blocks of each other—the Pistons, Lions, Tigers and Red Wings—have together risen from national mockery to playoff contention in the past few years.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
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The long-standing lèse-majesté laws, which criminalizes criticism of the monarchy, is still used to intimidate and punish activists, making a mockery of any notion that Thailand is a land where speech rights are protected.—
Jeffrey Wasserstrom,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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The National Association of Theatre Owners, popularly known around the movie business as NATO, will no longer be confused with a favorite target of Donald Trump’s ire.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2025
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In 1950s America, Jews were central targets of McCarthyism and the Red Scare.—
Adam Jaffe,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2025
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Paying ransoms does not guarantee a return to normal business operations, and 35% of victims who paid a ransom, according to the in-house analysis of data, either did not receive decryption keys or received corrupted keys.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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Authorities struggled to identify and process all of the victims.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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The actor, who stars in this weekend’s upcoming wide release, Snow White, has become a lightning rod of a figure amid the Israel-Gaza conflict as she’s outspoken in support of her home country.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
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With Black consumers having $2 trillion in buying power, this boycott could be the lightning rod that sparks a much wider movement.—
Allyson Kapin,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Maybe instead of rats the cartoon should show sitting ducks.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 2025
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To the Mach 4 missiles, capable of taking out jets maneuvering at high speed , a Shahed is a sitting duck.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Orb-weaving spiders are known for crafting intricate and highly organized webs to hunt prey.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Nothing has been beyond Trump’s boorish reach, not even a Kennedy Center musical about a shark who befriends would-be prey or, briefly, the building that houses the American Red Cross.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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Meek Mill being the butt of jokes negatively impacted his child’s life last year.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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Midway through the 97th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday (March 2), host Conan O’Brien fired off a Kendrick Lamar one-liner that once again made Drake the butt of the joke — this time at the Oscars.—
Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
3 Mar. 2025
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Goff’s staggering career revival — from middling starter on an 0-8-1 team to MVP candidate for one that’s 41-21 since, including the playoffs — mirrors the organization’s rise from league laughingstock to Super Bowl contender.—
Zak Keefer,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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The former Florida Gator has seen the club go from a laughingstock to a contender.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Pilgarlic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilgarlic. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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