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Recent Examples of befitsBallad of a Small Player has plenty of flash, as befits the story of a man whose everyday wear consists of jewel-tone velvet suits and silk ascots.—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025 Fantastic Fest has announced the film lineup for its 20th edition, promising an eclectic mix of horror, action, sci-fi, comedy, animation, and otherwise unclassifiable cinema that befits its status as the weirdest stop on the very busy fall festival circuit.—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
Creating a Partiful event or even texting the group suffices.
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Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
29 Aug. 2025
The complete sentence, housed in a single Arabic word, أحبّك, suffices when the world closes in and there is no room for longer declarations, for the leisure of language and its constructions.
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Nima Hasan
August 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.
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Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
The Egyptian government considers the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, but the United States does not.
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Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Sep. 2025
On the long list of commonplace myths surrounding enterprise networking, the general public sometimes perceives that the work only fits extroverts developing purely transactional bonds.
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Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Forest needed competition for Chris Wood, and Jesus fits the bill as a Brazil international who has scored at a healthy rate back home, including the winner against Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup.
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