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Kaitlyn Santa Juana plays a college student who learns that her grandmother cheated Death decades ago, and now that jerk is coming to take out her whole family via various creatively gnarly, Rube Goldberg-esque kills.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025 -
Mid-performance, the prop jerks downward after slipping from its wire, causing a drop that nearly unseats her.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
19 July 2025
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Now, if the board is made up of more boors than just the one, this may not be a workable solution.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
16 July 2025
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For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2024
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The immersive park officially opened to big crowds May 22 eager to see attractions built around training dragons, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Super Nintendo video games and Dracula, Frankenstein and other celluloid creeps and monsters from the movies.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 June 2025
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The White House previously said that Trump ended his friendship with Epstein, whom CNN reported attended the president's second wedding to Marla Maples, because the financier was a creep.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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As long as these self-promoting cads are in charge, things can only get worse.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
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As Bertram, Gabriel Brown played well the spoiled and despicable cad.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 July 2025
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Urías then allowed a high bounder by Yu Chang to get by for a two-base error.—
Tom Haudricourt,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
10 Sep. 2021
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Austin hit a bounder which filtered through Gandil’s mitt in the eighth.—
Kori Rumore,
chicagotribune.com,
26 Aug. 2020
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The reason there is a difference between their number of vine and rootstock varieties is due to the subterranean phylloxera louse that wiped out huge swaths of the world’s grape vines during the mid 19th century.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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About 5,000 years ago, a bacterium that was primarily transmitted via ticks made a switch to louse.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2025
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The early stages of a comedian’s career is about finding your clown — the core of what is funny about you — and then acclimating audiences to it.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
30 July 2025
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In a surreal mix of live-action and AI imagery, the film follows a talented clown who loses her sense of self while seeking audience approval.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
28 July 2025
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As Beau, Brake is tall and gaunt, with burning eyes, a rotter who looks like Steve Buscemi crossed with David Byrne crossed with a human rattlesnake who’s a lifelong junkie.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 May 2024
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Some experts say bed rotters are onto something, but there may be a right way to think about it.—
BYAlexa Mikhail,
Fortune Well,
10 July 2023
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