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Adjective
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Legendary English actor Malcolm McDowell was a core part of Franklin & Bash, playing eccentric senior partner Stanton Infeld.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep. 2025 -
Outside the Jeoffry section, the poem celebrates goats, wine, the King of Sardinia, the Postmaster General, and on and unpredictably on, compiling one of the more eccentric inventories of creation.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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When the pie dough is exposed to heat, the butter will melt and produce steam, which creates small air pockets that give the crust a light and flaky texture.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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This should still be a tender, light, flaky crust.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Clay Henry beat Steele in a landslide, with newspapers across the country covering the quirky election.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
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Finally, the quirky and cutting indie is in theaters this Friday, and ready for its biggest audience yet.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Yet last week’s warning from Jet2, a business respected for its cost control and excellent customer service, has served as a reminder that, for all the impressive growth of recent years, this remains a volatile and sometimes unpredictable sector.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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While any single month can be volatile and revisions can further change our understanding, hiring ground to a halt in May and June in the uncertain aftermath of the Liberation Day tariff announcements.—
Jeffrey Schulze,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The blast radius of Carl Rinsch‘s extravagant spending habits and Netflix‘s impetuous handing out of millions in the Golden Age of Streaming now has the feds footing the bills.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
12 Aug. 2025
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The dynamic changes from drag dialogue to an aging aristocrat-wannabe and her impetuous male ingenue.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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The drama will center on a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift — the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost — who sets out on a journey home.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sweetsick, which Birch also wrote, follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Crankish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crankish. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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