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Key Ingredients: Ginseng, peptides, caffeine, squalane Best For: Skin laxity, fine lines, wrinkles, dark circles Size: 0.5 oz.Emily Orofino, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
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Lately, there’s increasing chatter among aesthetic doctors on social about the true impact of volume loss on the aging face, with some surgeons arguing that deflation has been overemphasized—and, thus, fillers overused—when, in fact, tissue laxity and descent tend to be greater contributors.Jolene Edgar, Allure, 24 Sep. 2024
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Spanish officials also accused Vives of criminal conspiracy, fraud and perversion of justice and are currently seeking a six year prison sentence for the executive.Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2024
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And this cultural extortion, rooted in naïve ghetto socialism — a perversion of the civil-rights heritage — plants a worrisome notion.Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024
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Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
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America, Where the Dogs Don’t Bark and the Birds Don’t Sing The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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Goode will serve the two sentences for indecency with a child concurrently, equating to a term of 40 years in prison.Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
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There were episodes on figuring out if your child is a budding serial killer, as well as indecency and obscenity in music featuring Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Plasmatics’ Wendy O Williams, and Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir.Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
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That’s the news out of Oxford University, where a recent study found that there are at least 15 modifiable lifestyle factors that contribute to the acceleration of brain degeneration.Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2024
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Conventional cotton farming leads to soil degeneration due to intensive use of pesticides and contributes to climate irregularities.Judith Magyar, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
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Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
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Because their original criminality did not have consequences.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2024
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There is a sense that in criminality, that there is not a punishment. ...Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2024
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Ian Curtis of Joy Division (RIP) and Robert Smith of The Cure (still going) come to mind as poster children of a generation of musicians who carved their own subculture out of post-Vietnam War dissolution in America.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
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Lesh was a fixture with the Grateful Dead until the band’s dissolution, in 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia.Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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