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Adjective
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The opening of the gift was a sentimental moment for more reasons than one.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
6 Feb. 2025 -
Memories are attached to sentimental objects as the moon and Mercury harmonize!—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
2 Feb. 2025
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Though less zealous than Vance or Burch, Trump administration nominees Linda McMahon for education secretary and Elise Stefanik for United Nations ambassador are Catholic or have a Catholic background.—
Liam Adams,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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They were drawn to subjects who were natural performers—the producer Joseph E. Levine, the Beatles—but were zealous about upholding vérité values.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Last week, Trump struck an optimistic note about Saudi-Israel normalization, claiming Riyadh wasn’t demanding an independent Palestinian state in return.—
Abbas Al Lawati,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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Despite record-setting fundraising and an optimistic message about efforts to get voters to the polls in 2024, voter turnout in heavily Democratic Mecklenburg once again trailed the rest of North Carolina as Democrats failed to flip the battleground state for presidential candidate Kamala Harris.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.—
Susan Orlean,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2019
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Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.—
Carla Meyer,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Feb. 2018
Adjective
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More generally, the term was a form of American exceptionalism that came to mean the inevitable east-to-west occupation of the North American continent, often expressed in messianic terms.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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After nearly two and a half millennia, the Jews are back in Israel and messianic messengers stalk the halls of power in both Iran and the Knesset.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Tender-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tender-minded. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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