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There’s no time like the present to copy Reese Witherspoon’s loungewear look — Spanx is running a bundle deal that nets you two items for 15 percent off.
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Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
At the same time, the present era is an epoch in which wars go on seemingly forever—now simmering, now boiling—without end.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
As a result of the information void, analysts are expecting Chair Powell’s economic update today to steer away from the present environment and instead focus on other monetary policy tools.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
The demons transform into trauma, operating between flashbacks of the Santa Teresa covenant with bloody faces and slamming doors to the grocery store where Agnes works in the present.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
At the same time, the present era is an epoch in which wars go on seemingly forever—now simmering, now boiling—without end.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
As a result of the information void, analysts are expecting Chair Powell’s economic update today to steer away from the present environment and instead focus on other monetary policy tools.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
The demons transform into trauma, operating between flashbacks of the Santa Teresa covenant with bloody faces and slamming doors to the grocery store where Agnes works in the present.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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