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The movie is calibrated to the volume of a whisper, as if Hayakawa is in a conspiratorial conversation with her own memories.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025 -
The aide also flagged conspiratorial thinking, megalomania, roller-coaster emotions and questioned whether Fetterman was taking medication prescribed to combat his depression.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
12 May 2025
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Gaddafi agreed to suspend his country's nuclear weapons program in December 2003, following years of clandestine negotiations that began during the Clinton administration and continued under George W. Bush.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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Alongside the harbour in Lerwick are five fishing boats, once part of the clandestine Anglo-Norwegian Shetland Bus mission, and the wartime cargo ship Hestmanden.—
Heather Farmbrough,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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That includes Tom Cruise, as covert CIA division agent Ethan Hunt, riding a motorcycle off a 4,000-foot cliff and BASE jumping the final 500 feet of a ravine, or the breathless climactic train mayhem in 2023’s Dead Reckoning, the opening installment of this two-parter.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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In an opinion piece published by the Venezuelan independent newspaper La Razón, former lawmaker Omar González Moreno recounted the covert mission that freed him and four others without a single shot being fired.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2025
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Reporters from around the country followed the case, which marked the first time ever that prosecutors would play for a jury a surreptitious FBI recording of mob soldiers taking the oath of omerta during a mafia initiation ceremony.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
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For example: In 2003, a group of Providence, Rhode Island, artists embarked on a project combining installation art and surreptitious living arrangements.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
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Morgan moved out of New York in July 2024 after selling her five-story, Upper East Side penthouse in May 2024 for an undisclosed amount.—
Emily Rella,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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In January, the company raised an undisclosed amount in a series A round from investors including ByteDance, HongShan (formerly Sequoia China) and the MiraclePlus accelerator.—
Yue Wang,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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“Collusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collusive. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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