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as in disquieting
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as in tormenting
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This is NDiaye at her disquieting best.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
30 Dec. 2025 -
The combination of quavering flutes and solemn, unfamiliar corridors is disquieting.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
10 Dec. 2025
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Season 4 is not going to let up on tormenting Will, according to Ramon Rodriguez, the actor who plays him.—
Rodney Ho,
AJC.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Stop tormenting the boy, says Helga.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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The collision would trigger fusion, perturbing a magnetic field, which in turn produces power.—
Harry Booth,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Other geopolitical threats afflicting OPEC+ nations continue to simmer.—
Grant Smith,
Fortune,
4 Jan. 2026
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The Canadian national conscience is rightly troubled by the serious social problems afflicting Indigenous Canada.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
27 Dec. 2025
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Dan Bujor, who lives out of a school bus parked in Long Island City, was arrested Sunday on charges including overdriving animals, torturing and injuring animals and failure to provide sustenance, in addition to driving without a license, in connection with the bizarre incident, cops said.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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George was arraigned Saturday on three counts of second-degree killing/torturing animals, two counts of abandoning/cruelty to an animal resulting in a death, and one count of abandoning/cruelty to an animal.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
22 Dec. 2025
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The San Francisco 49ers got the job done on the road, upsetting the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, 23-19, in the Wild Card Round to move on in the playoffs.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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But Vandegrift won a piece of the District 25-6A championship for the eighth straight year and then kept going in the playoffs, upsetting Westlake and Dripping Springs before falling in the states semifinals to Houston King.—
Rick Cantu,
Austin American Statesman,
10 Jan. 2026
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Three people are awaiting trial on charges of physically and psychologically abusing the victim, now 17.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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He was arraigned three months later on charges of repeatedly abusing the child.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Holding the two halves together builds something that neither half could make alone, and treating either as infallible turns them into engines for manufacturing enemies and alienating friends.—
Robert T.F. Downes,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2026
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Choose authenticity over provocation, and allow transformation without burning bridges or alienating allies in the process this month.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Aggrieving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrieving. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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