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Adjective
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Oily, sooty residue was all over the city.
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By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.
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The May 23 rainout in New York that messed with their vibe.
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Rocky was not to be messed with.
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An arriving officer arrested the Parma Heights resident, who was crocked, for disorderly conduct.
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Although the treaty promised an annuity, payments were often late or siphoned off to crocked traders.
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The analysis reveals guidance for identifying symptoms, suggesting professional help, and handling sensitive topics like self-harm and disordered eating with caution and accurate resources.
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Women with thyroid issues or disordered eating histories should be especially cautious.
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But for cars that weighed around 3,100 pounds, those figures aren’t too shabby in terms of real-world performance.
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The result is a compassionate, elegant, unsettling book about some extremely shabby people.
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Domingo and Fey get snarky, a clever visual gag earns a surprise laugh, the dialogue is sharper than usual, and the main pairings get jumbled up with purposeful, delightful results.
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Ditch the mish-mash of clothes jumbled in your closet with the help of these storage bins, which are just $4 apiece right now, or add extra clothing storage with this duo of under-bed bags that even have wheels.
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Bloody, disturbing, shocking, and entertaining as hell, the Ghost Ship opening couldn’t be any more different from the absolute slog that follows it, climaxing on a muddled and overly complicated ending.
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So the relationship of high rates for long-term CDs and low rates for short-term CDs remains muddled.
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Boots were made to look deliberately disheveled, with tiny ladybirds across them.
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Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth earl of Asherton and generally natty guy played by Nathaniel Parker, and his distinctly working-class and perpetually disheveled sergeant, Barbara Havers (Sharon Small), creates a classic odd-couple mix that allows some actual insight into issues of class and gender.
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“Collied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collied. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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