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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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Mamdani speaks at May Day rally Hundreds, if not thousands, packed Manhattan's Washington Square Park to celebrate workers and the history of labor organizing, before the group started marching to Foley Square.—
Ali Bauman,
CBS News,
2 May 2026
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Knats front-end their version with the words from a 1972 BBC documentary about Durham miners set to off-kilter melody, before balladic piano chords enter, and Cooper speaks a refrain based on the folk song.—
Archie Forde,
Pitchfork,
1 May 2026
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As if that wasn't enough, the hospital is also in lockdown due to an active shooter, as Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) explains in the heart-pounding promo.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Rhone explains why that changed.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
1 May 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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In an oppositional reading, the reader understands the dominant ideology expressed in the text but rejects it and interprets the text in an alternative way.—
Shepherd Mpofu,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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Like personal numerology, address numerology interprets the numbers in your address to uncover the vibrations of your living environment.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Apr. 2026
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While everyone can be affected by smoke or ozone, the MPCA says those at higher risk of health complications include outdoor workers, older adults, children, those who are pregnant, and those who have heart or lung conditions.—
Forum News Service,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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The Administration for Children and Families says state child support agencies submit qualifying cases, and federal officials forward those records to the State Department.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 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 8 May. 2026.
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