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The altercation occurred in the final second of UConn’s 62-48 loss to the Gamecocks when Auriemma approached the South Carolina bench as though to concede the game.
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Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
The clear pumps were designed to look as though they had been covered in blood, with a glossy red concentrated at the toes and splattered upward in an uneven way.
—Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
The clashing worldviews of secularism and Christianity are not simply competing outlooks — as though one were merely better than the other.
—James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
It had been mounted on a small platform, which bore a little icon of a pair of feet inside a backslash circle, as though stepping into a guillotine were every museumgoer’s wish.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
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Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
The clear pumps were designed to look as though they had been covered in blood, with a glossy red concentrated at the toes and splattered upward in an uneven way.
—Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
The clashing worldviews of secularism and Christianity are not simply competing outlooks — as though one were merely better than the other.
—James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
It had been mounted on a small platform, which bore a little icon of a pair of feet inside a backslash circle, as though stepping into a guillotine were every museumgoer’s wish.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
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