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The first-year Nuggets coach angrily confronted the officiating crew out to mid-court even after being handed his second technical foul, which automatically results in an ejection.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
21 Dec. 2025 -
Soon after, Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi angrily confronted each other at the White House, according to a New York Times report.—
Kevin Breuninger,Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
17 Dec. 2025
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Where is my rice-bartering Angelina Keeley, my coldly strategic Genevieve Mushaluk, my financial analyst Emily Flippen, or my real-life Buffalo Bills fan Kyle?—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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His cabinet, meanwhile, conspires to remove their own children from any ballot, before coldly decreeing that kids from the worst performing schools should be sent away with the 456.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
5 Dec. 2025
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The Rodents of Unusual Size that attack Westley in a swamp work because they are played by small men in rodent suits, rather than coolly conjured from pixels; their deliberate artifice is the thrill, and Reiner provided the voice for their hideous snorts.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2025
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Also bent on finding the stone are sadistic rebel commander Captain Poison (David Harewood, oozing evil) and the coolly calculating Colonel (Arnold Vosloo), Danny’s one-time mentor as a soldier-for-hire.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Belligerently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belligerently. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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