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Recent Examples of chappieEditor’s note: Director Neill Blomkamp is back with his latest film Chappie this weekend.—Mark Yarm, WIRED, 16 July 2013
Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.
The powers that be explained to me that in the audiobook, there would be no easy way to identify the bees’ chapters, which were designated with italics in the printed version, unless the narrator’s voice changed from female to male.
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Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
Kristin Andrews, a philosopher at York University, told me about gelada monkeys, which live in units consisting of one dominant male and about a dozen females.
Plenty of people, critics or otherwise, weighed in online, often piling on about their distaste for a perfectly adequate, somewhat imperfect, modestly ambitious thriller that’s mostly about a very intense dude trying to protect his adult children.
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David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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