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as in annotates
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as in speaks
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Pretending to be the smart person who annotates their books can lead to becoming that person.—
Brianne Kane,
Scientific American,
19 Sep. 2025
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And they’re trained from birth to believe that the prophet speaks directly with God and to obey whatever the prophet tells them to do.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Jeff’s worries, Rogers explains to the camera after seeing his young friend off, are different from the worry that one’s parents might separate.—
Jean Garnett,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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Saliers further explains that the essential tremor has impacted the way the duo can perform some of their most notable harmonies.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
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The phrase also sometimes is used as a battle cry and has been employed by those with a nefarious agenda to instill fear of anyone who utters it and to raise concerns about Islam itself, according to Muslim scholars and civil rights advocates.—
Michelle Krupa,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
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Falduto utters the words as his character Billy to Dewey, playing the opinionated student who becomes the stylist for the band.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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Digital and tech journalist Taylor Lorenz expounds upon the influence of the digital space called social media in her book, Extremely Online.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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On this week’s episode of Good One, Gethard — whose latest special, A Father and the Sun, debuted this past September — expounds on these ideas by outlining what pursuing a creative career used to look like, where things went wrong, and where artists must go from here.—
Chris Gethard,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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Here, chef Ishan interprets familiar flavours afresh, turning guavas into a delicate cheesecake, jackfruit into nihari, and charred melon into carpaccio.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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One agent interprets the request.—
Anita Beveridge-Raffo,
Fortune,
16 Apr. 2026
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The Mendoza ad will circulate on ESPN and on social media, the executive says – but not for very long.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
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The indictment says that in exchange for money, the soldiers maintained contact with Iranian intelligence operatives over a few months and carried out a range of tasks under their direction.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
24 Apr. 2026
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The rapidity and the terseness of the onscreen action leaps from scene to scene, from event to event, from one salient point to the next, with nothing incidental in between, nothing revealing anything besides what directly elucidates the story as Polanski chooses to tell it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Commentates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commentates. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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