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Adjective
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Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already?—
Bluesky Social,
Bluesky Social,
11 Mar. 2025 -
The super-sized, standalone episode — arguably the boldest creative swing in Gemstones‘ history —functioned as a prologue to the show, one that explored the Gemstone family’s twisted, corrupt religious roots, circa 1862.—
Michael Ausiello,
TVLine,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Meier is among the authors of a WWF report that outlines steps towards restoring, conserving, and sustainably managing grasslands, and urges for them to be included in global UN targets aiming to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems and 30% of terrestrial and aquatic environments by 2030.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN,
6 Dec. 2024
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Tragically, the Chesapeake remains significantly degraded and its overall water quality has improved only marginally after 41 years.—
Gerald Winegrad,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Feb. 2025
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Both suspects were charged with second degree murder with depraved indifference.—
Rebecca Cohen,
NBC News,
23 Feb. 2025
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The scene that follows—an intense grief followed by a quick return to the dull and depraved routine of trying to score their next hit—captures both the extremism and the banality of addiction and homelessness.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The next day, Thursday, Bove replied to Sassoon, accepting her resignation and reiterated his warped reasons why the case should be dismissed without prejudice, meaning that it can be resumed later on.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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The false front of a saloon still stood, with an alder tree growing through its warped timbers.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.—
Rachel Cusk,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.—
Ashley Bardhan,
Vulture,
5 July 2024
Adjective
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Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 2025
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Fans have long waited to see how the show, produced by Skybound Entertainment, adapts this massive event from Kirkman's comics, which sees Angstrom (Sterling K. Brown) assemble an army of evil Marks from alternate dimensions to lay siege to Earth.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In theory, the walls of carbon nanotubes house a sea of degenerate electrons that have a similar density to metals.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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There was alarm at the prospect of hundreds of thousands of soldiers returning to the U.S. with such degenerate experience under their belts, and presumably spreading these habits among hitherto innocent American wives.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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Michelle Yeoh Yeoh may be in her villain era, but there's nothing sinful about her Louvre look.—
Edward Segarra,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
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The dominant Christian theology of the Middle Ages held that wealth was inherently sinful in a world where most people toiled in terrible poverty.—
Brian Klaas,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Temptable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temptable. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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