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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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The most unlikely result is who speaks most plainly about the Kurds.—
Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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In this episode of WWD Voices for Retail Rx, Ian Fredericks, president and chief executive officer of Hilco Consumer-Retail, speaks with Adler about his career, what was hot this holiday season and how his brand approaches retail.—
Sarah Jones,
Footwear News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Accidental ingestion is safe for healthy adults, says Wang, who explains that the hard outer coating of citrus seeds prevents the release of potential toxins, allowing the seeds to pass through the body undigested.—
Stacey Lastoe,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2026
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Carmi explains that progress was not linear for him, but the journey still feels well worth the challenges.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 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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Who interprets this for each function?—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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After the school viewing, Noelle avoids eye contact with her mother, which April interprets as a provocation.—
Ruth Madievsky,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2026
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But the Minnesota Department of Corrections says there are only about 300 such people in state and county custody.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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The train set and bike were both transferred to the archives while the dates were disposed of by the Secret Service, the report says.—
MATTHEW LEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 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 1 Feb. 2026.
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