Agnes has a gawky, floppy-haired beauty, a gently appraising stare, quizzically arching eyebrows, and a tendency to listen with her mouth half open, as if in anticipation of a punch line that will take her, and us, by surprise.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
20 June 2025
Right as Elio opens his mouth to respond, the scene cuts, and the credits return.
So keep your piehole shut and go out and play football and earn your keep and earn your respect.
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Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 May 2025
Busch won the pole for the race and was the most combative driver in reaction to Keselowski’s remarks about Toyotas, telling Keselowski through Twitter to shut his piehole (or an abbreviation to that effect).
What excites me, after a decade and change of writing virtually the same review for every superhero film that was shoved down our gullets, is my suspicion that these movies will at least have the potential to suck in different and sometimes wildly unexpected ways.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Apr. 2025
The coverage of him has often been over the top and forced down the gullets of sports fans.
TikTok and Instagram Reels are rife with clips of two women sitting in a pink or beige studio and, in TikTok terms, having a yap about seemingly inconsequential matters.
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Kyndall Cunningham,
Vox,
10 Apr. 2025
Foxes use a variety of calls, including barks, howls, yaps, and growls.
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Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
4 Mar. 2025
Since February, Donald Trump and Linda McMahon have blocked these borrowers' path out of default and are now feeding them into the maw of the government debt collection machine.
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Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
Not all of the material from the wrecked star falls around the black hole and eventually into its maw, however.
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