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The investigations and any response in this case by FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) are ongoing (read: pathetically slow and unencouraging).
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Shireen Ahmed, Time, 5 June 2019
Shireen Ahmed, Time, 5 June 2019
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This is the formal, technical, and maybe even industry term for exactly what viewers will suspect; the ornate sitting room of the Staten Island mansion where a group of vampires gather to lounge, fight, and occasionally hypnotize a private school principal to the point of irreparable brain damage.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2024
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In the ruling, Judges Eric Clay and Karen Moore argued that the groups risk irreparable harm if pipeline construction begins before the judges decide their case.Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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Johnson campaigned against an unpromising backdrop: nearly ten years of austerity cuts under successive Tory governments, doubts about his flamboyant character, and fratricidal division within his party over Brexit.Pippa Norris, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2020
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That led the Initiative in an unpromising direction.Steve Denning, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Patients with primary resistance may not respond to inhibitor therapy if their T cells are already forced into irreversible exhaustion.William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Finally, blockchain smart contracts—essentially, self-executing, irreversible exchanges of cryptocurrency—automatically process the trades and distribute money to the winners.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
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In Horse Crazy, his implacable skepticism forces the reader to consider the alienating effects of an era characterized by lethal STIs, unrepentant capitalism, bulldozed cultural history, and pervasive substance addiction.Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Close proves to be inspired casting as the underhanded and unrepentant Cath, who shows barely any indication of maternal concern for her sons in a quest to get her hands on the emeralds.Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Unencouraging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unencouraging. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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