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• As the weeks of the NFL regular season dwindle, the plot thickens and the stakes rise even higher.
  — Mike Jones, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
• However, the plot thickens when Ventham himself is later killed after being injected with a lethal dose of fentanyl.
  — Keith Langston, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• As the plot thickens, personal demons, Soviet legacies and local superstitions collide with devastating consequences.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
• However, the plot thickens when Braxton’s character discovers that Richard has become engaged to a woman named Monica (Essence Atkins), who happens to be Montgomery’s friend from college.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 Oct. 2025
• Mid-month, the plot thickens as Saturn, your traditional ruler, enters Aries on February 13th, followed by its conjunction with Neptune on February 20th.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Jan. 2026
• Dark and elegant, growing more frightening as the plot thickens, The Medium surpasses all expectations of a Tai-South Korean mockumentary supernatural horror film.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025