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as in deliberately
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as in cunningly
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The narrative is deliberately overwrought and overwritten.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025 -
Officials said Roley deliberately set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain, near Coeur d’Alene to lure first responders into a deadly trap, according to the Associated Press.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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The new batch of six episodes, all written or co-written by its creator Charlie Brooker, reflects the full range of how the show has evolved to include new grooves — a mix of the horrific and the comedic, the hopeful and the nihilistic, the archly British and the sourly American.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Repeatedly rising to the challenge of maneuvering through the film’s myriad plot twists and tonal shifts, McKellen is by turns imperiously hilarious, archly devious, forlornly melancholy and pathetically desperate.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Calculatingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculatingly. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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