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Somebody does something terrible and messes it up.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025 -
If your smartwatch tracking every heartbeat and sleep cycle hasn’t already given you health anxiety, Kohler wants to mess you up in a new way.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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But which No 9 good enough to lead a Premier League promotion chase is going to come to Leeds this month and sit on the bench waiting for the Dutchman to get crocked? Farke has mentioned Gnonto as an emergency striker option, if needed.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 July 2024
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Researchers at Google have spent years developing one such task: measuring how quantum information gets jumbled up over time.—
Dan Garisto,
Scientific American,
22 Oct. 2025
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Going frame by frame often highlights telltale AI hiccups such as a melting logo, a vanishing hand, jumbled text on signs or text that flickers and changes.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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Their habitats were ransacked, their migration routes disarranged, truncated, cut off.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Oct. 2022
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As a result of financial and personal problems, Bíró's invention ended up muddled in a number of international patents and licensing agreements in different companies and individuals in various countries.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Oct. 2025
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Together the flavor is muddled, slightly discordant, but alone the Irish whiskey gets to sing, its apples and pears and slight malt and gentle touch a perfect foil to the zesty front palate of the lemon and the deep finish of the almonds.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
25 Oct. 2025
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Children have a penchant for unconventional thinking that, at first glance, can look disordered.—
Celeste Kidd,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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Those included headaches, insomnia, light and noise sensitivity, brain fog, anxiety, confusion, joint pain, disordered eating, nausea and weight loss and gain.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
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Will baking soda bleach or discolor my carpet?—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
1 Nov. 2025
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Redditors report that finishes often flake off, scratch easily, or discolor with regular cleaning.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Colly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colly. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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