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Adjective
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Unsurprisingly, people who live farther north are more susceptible than their southern counterparts because of the shorter daylight hours—so folks in Alaska and New Hampshire would statistically be at higher risk than their counterparts in Texas or Florida, say.—
Maggie O'Neill,
SELF,
20 Oct. 2025 -
Some light fabrics are especially susceptible to staining from the minerals in water.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Many gullible liberal elites pretend that the radical jihadists of Hamas do not represent the broader Palestinian-Arab population, but that is a lie.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Sep. 2025
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Edelman brings goofy charm to Adam, a gullible and guileless father of four, while Key is consistently funny as the simpering Ken.—
Kristen Baldwin,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For Candy, getting to play the unsophisticated traveling salesman, a big man like himself, gave him an opportunity to showcase both his flair for broad comedy and, for the first time onscreen, his innate vulnerability.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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And there’s been this story that retail investors are unsophisticated.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
27 Aug. 2025
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Yet despite this unprecedented sophistication, exploitable patterns remain.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This could soon begin to attract the criminal organizations looking for exploitable areas of science.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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That being said, some travel essentials stay packed and ready—the gear, gadgets, and go-tos that make every trip that much easier.—
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Oct. 2025
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With Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy back, things have gotten a lot easier for Kelce.—
Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But anyone imagining that this problem will be resolved by taking games beyond international borders is extremely naive.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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In contrast, the late-’90s and early-2000s pop culture era—glittery, naive, and commercially loud—feels like an antidote to endless doom-scrolling.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Icardi describes her former boss as kind, professional and trusting.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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Cats are far less trusting than dogs and rarely fall for the pill-in-the-treat ploy.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The books have the guileless charm of club-notes.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Whereas the title Amerika emphasizes the setting, The Missing Person points to the novel’s focus on the travails of a guileless hero struggling to find his footing in a frenetic new world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Deceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceivable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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