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Noun
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Trump officials must contend with the Supreme Court’s decision to end Chevron deference to federal agencies, which could help lawsuits against new measures that go beyond U.S. immigration law or regulatory authority.—
Stuart Anderson,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025 -
Traditionally, the press pool has been coordinated by the WHCA, to which White House officials across multiple administrations have traditionally given deference.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This shift demands continuous awareness, proactive action, and the humility to acknowledge that none of us can navigate the challenges of aging alone, regardless of our financial resources.—
Joseph Coughlin,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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But Grade also wanted to show the beauty of this Judaism: its humility and moral delicacy, its hatred of cruelty, its ability to reach the sublime in the midst of material poverty and wretchedness.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Most disconcerting is the meekness of Washington’s supposedly stalwart European allies.—
Raphael Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Nov. 2014
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But to see Bass as a kumbaya leader — or to mistake her softness for meekness — is to fundamentally misunderstand her.—
Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2024
Noun
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Trump and Vance demand absolute loyalty and subservience – as seen in their interactions with Zelensky.—
Greg Orme,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Trad wives are typically conservative, usually Christians and post about things like cooking, cleaning and subservience to their husbands.—
Charles Trepany,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Case in point, the robot war concludes when a mechanized Mr. Peanut surrenders to Bill Clinton on the White House lawn.—
Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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He was deployed to Panama as a part of Operation Just Cause, a U.S. mission that ended with the surrender of the Central American country's dictator, Gen. Manuel Noriega.—
Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Russia will continue to object to NATO membership for Ukraine, but NATO’s decision should not depend on Russian acquiescence.—
STEPHEN HADLEY,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Mar. 2025
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Or in 2025, does Hollywood go the other way, the Big Tech way, toward acquiescence, toward eliminating the fact-checking departments, toward platforming the trolls, toward filling the coffers of the first lady?—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Back in South Korea, Son has rightly earned the status of a national hero and wears the lofty honor with admirable modesty.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
30 Oct. 2024
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In the article Culpo makes a few comments about the modesty of her Dolce & Gabbana dress that rub some readers the wrong way, and the situation spirals into a full-on controversy.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
10 Mar. 2025
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Yet a form of capitulation has haunted the opening salvos of the Trump administration’s negotiating plan – Hegseth gifting Moscow with the prospect of Ukraine not joining NATO or recovering territory, before talks had apparently begun.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
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In a final act of capitulation, the seven-year-old Song emperor, Zhao Bing, drowned himself to evade capture by the Mongol navy.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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