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In an effort to figure out who the traitor on his team is, Ethan Hunt needs the NOC list, which contains the identities of every American spy.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
27 May 2025 -
The Confederacy — traitors — were fighting to keep my ancestors enslaved.—
Hashim Coates,
Denver Post,
5 May 2025
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Where our maps show the absence of cicadas, that means that one of us or a collaborator visited that location under appropriate conditions and verified that no cicadas were present.—
Chris Simon,
The Conversation,
22 May 2025
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Trier penned the script with his frequent collaborator Eskil Vogt.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
21 May 2025
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The sellout crowd kept the energy going all night, even when the game was slipping away for the Valkyries.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
19 May 2025
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The Chicago Sky forward had just been on the other end of a flagrant foul committed by Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, and the sellout crowd filled with Fever fans let Reese have it.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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The other senators are immediately abuzz, and Mothma has to be smuggled out of the spherical senate chamber to avoid abduction by a turncoat.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
21 May 2025
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Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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The shooting of former Broncos player Josh Reynolds and his friend while they were chased by a dozen conspirators across Denver last year was not motivated by Reynolds’ status as an NFL player, the Denver District Attorney’s Office said this week.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2025
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The primary conspirators behind the Oklahoma City bombing were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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While Judas Priest were a part of VH1’s ‘Behind The Music’ documentary series in 2001, Sony’s documentary will be the first major film on the band distributed by a big studio.—
Quentin Thane Singer,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Rising from humble, working-class roots in Birmingham, UK, to become global rock legends, Judas Priest are one of the true pioneers of heavy metal.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
21 May 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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“Subverter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subverter. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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