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The nightmarish series of events in Miami sent the Yankees from 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays in the AL East.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025 -
During this encore of Snowball Earth, with the world imprisoned in ice once more, volcanic CO2 built back up in the atmosphere again, unchecked over millions of hopelessly cold years and eventually reaching outrageously high, nightmarish levels.—
Peter Brannen
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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To anyone paying attention, this measure is ridiculous and obviously a set up to demand something to address this yawning chasm for a person trying to rent a two-bedroom apartment.—
Roger Valdez,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Biden has denied these allegations, calling them ridiculous and false.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Starring Mike Myers as a lone-wolf ogre, the film filtered familiar storybook icons through a farcical lens.—
Skyler Trepel September 1,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Take away the magical, beyond-farcical setup, and what’s left is a timeless story.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
27 Aug. 2025
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Mad Max is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that is at once striking and surreal.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
3 Sep. 2025
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There was a surreal end to the race, with Vingegaard and Pidcock unsure of where exactly the new finish line was.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Those who value and respect America but couldn’t find their way through the Kafkaesque immigration system deserve a chance to rectify their situation.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
10 Aug. 2025
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In a Kafkaesque twist, Trump’s chart assigns Eswatini the lowest possible (10 percent) reciprocal tariff, despite the fact the nation applies the same external tariffs as Lesotho.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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The level of mayhem feels perfectly ripped from the films, especially the recent Daniel Craig tenure, although with some more ludicrous feats that harken back to the slapstick elements of earlier entries.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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Gilbert has always made hay from her own blind spots and ludicrous proclivities.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Rehmeier’s regular cinematographer Jean-Philippe Bernier brings an appropriate warmth to the film’s visual palette, generating a dreamlike tone to the imagery befitting the protagonists’ self-image.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, their many years together reveal themselves as the vital heart of Romano’s own artistic output, as scattered throughout these pages appear pieces of her earlier books and, especially, poems, which come to assume the aura of dreamlike premonitions.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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That too is laughable, historians of the circus say.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Aug. 2025
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Their cowardly response is laughable and sad.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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