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brown study

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Moreover, in a study of 29 users of Melanotan II published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, some users reported their skin turning a dull gray color.

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Does this study prove that watching television causes negative brain changes?

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

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Ovington Gardens and Ovington Square have attracted several big-name residents over the years, including Oscar Wilde, Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Ernestine Bowes-Lyon, and Coco Chanel’s muse Vera Bate Lombardi.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2026
And with Molly Ringwald as his muse, Hughes’s directorial debut established his gift for frank and empathetic tales of adolescent crushes and high school social hierarchies.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026

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Presidential legacy in the United States is no longer defined solely through retrospection and archival preservation.

— Andre Dowell, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
Frisell will turn 75 on March 18, midway through his current tour, and retrospection is a constant throughout In My Dreams.

— Archie Forde, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2026

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Whereas, symptoms for women tend to be more internalized and subtle, such as with more quiet distractibility, daydreaming, disorganization, excessive talking and emotional dysregulation.

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
No amount of daydreaming would have been able to replace the knowledge that Lenny could have shared.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026

Definition of daydreaming

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One by one, as if roused from a trance, my fellow staffers rose from their workstations and filed to the exit.

— Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026
As people around her begin slipping into an emotionally numb trance described as being eclipsed, the boundaries between Bego’s imagination, the digital world and physical reality begin to dissolve.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 30 July 2026

Definition of trance

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Her adultery story initially evokes the imprisoned girl’s compensatory reveries, but over time its focus shifts.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The poem is rife with open meanings; however, its principal question is important for anyone who has felt slighted or discouraged from conducting their lives with reverie.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

Definition of reverie

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From there, our efforts to cybernetically steer the course of the world through imagistic reflection—via this mirror equipped with special eyelike features that is the computer screen—turn paradoxical.

— Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026
By contrast, Murphy fashions the moment into a statement on trauma, with Bret’s reflections about his youthful naïveté mirroring some of the language of the #MeToo movement.

— Leo Lasdun, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026

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