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Right-of-center nonprofit experts previously told the Washington Examiner that the organizational change could functionally be a simple rebrand, allowing Arabella to shed the toxic branding and defang GOP legal attacks given its new name and structure.
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Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
That’s due in large part, experts say, to the regulator having been essentially defanged about 30 years ago, creating what would become the Wild West of dietary supplements.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Defense lobbying groups, though, have made a push to defang the repairability provision of the bill in favor of the House’s data-as-a-service tweak.
—Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 26 Nov. 2025
Thus far, though, Pitchfork hardly seems defanged.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
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Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
That’s due in large part, experts say, to the regulator having been essentially defanged about 30 years ago, creating what would become the Wild West of dietary supplements.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Defense lobbying groups, though, have made a push to defang the repairability provision of the bill in favor of the House’s data-as-a-service tweak.
—Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 26 Nov. 2025
Thus far, though, Pitchfork hardly seems defanged.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Defang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defang. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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