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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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Wang — who speaks Italian at a B2, or upper intermediate level, and has four great-grandparents from Sicily — had already made an appointment to recognize her citizenship, so hoped she might be treated as a case in progress.—
Julia Buckley,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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That these bones were assessed as potentially centuries old speaks to the level of deterioration observed by investigators.—
Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Mar. 2026
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That distinction naturally explains why Saturn's rings are composed almost entirely of water ice, with very little rock, the study notes.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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Fig, meanwhile, has drunk the Kool-Aid entirely, Shipp explains.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
27 Mar. 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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However, your brain only interprets it through information collected by cells in your eye’s retinas called cones.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
25 Mar. 2026
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Instead of depending on symmetry, the robot continuously interprets signals from the remaining sensor and adjusts its movement accordingly.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Mar. 2026
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Freddy Valle, a resident, says many were shocked by the notice.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Part of the reason could have been as a defense strategy to protect the calf from danger, Gero says.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 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 Apr. 2026.
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