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Noun
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After personally speaking with students, their remorse revealed that ignorance, rather than malice, was the culprit.—
Mark Treyger,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2025 -
Following the heinous crime, there is an outpouring of malice for the victim, and of admiration for the perpetrator.—
Onkar Ghate,
Orange County Register,
22 Jan. 2025
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David Lynch’s cinematic masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the sadism and malevolence hiding behind the picket fences of middle America.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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The London Cat, a great skinless feline who likes to turn people inside-out and embodies all the mischief and malevolence of cats).—
Christian Holub,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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According to Newsweek, toxic sibling behavior often manifests through jealousy and competitiveness, especially when one sibling perceives the other's success as a personal slight.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Unable to admit the depth of her jealousy (here, the narrative veers into Baby Mama territory), Lainy distances herself from Kate to indulge in her own fantasy.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Feb. 2025
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His production was mostly in spite of the Giants’ reality and did not change the organization’s bottom line.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2025
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In spite of the tech rout this week — the PHLX Semiconductor Index slumped 6% — investors remain wary that the full implications of DeepSeek have yet to play out in stock prices.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
31 Jan. 2025
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Everything about the movement surprised political observers: its virulence, its magnitude, its provincial origins, its apparent lack of structure and leadership, and its adamant refusal to be co-opted by existing political parties and unions.—
Arthur Goldhammer,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2018
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An ePPP is a pathogen that has been modified to enhance its transmissibility and virulence.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Noah, Dan, Margot and Eliza keep secrets and nurse resentments.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Naturally, each group’s facade hides a festering wound, from brewing scandal to simmering resentment to formative trauma.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Strong’s mother said her son was killed because of envy stemming from his budding career.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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The Pittsburgh Pirates have a young starting rotation that would be the envy of most Major League Baseball teams.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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For the program, the zoo takes the collected and recorded spiders and milks them for their venom so the material can used to make anti-venom.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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Their stingers deliver as much venom as a snake or seven times that of a honeybee.—
Shi En Kim,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Dec. 2024
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