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Adjective
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The few adult characters in the film are gullible or bumbling.—
Linnea Wicklund,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026 -
The tactic saved the banking industry, but the great railway boom was over, and there was no reprieve for the gullible souls who had been drawn into it.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Another potential area of concern is that, because copper levels in the body are tightly regulated, excessive supplementation could theoretically contribute to toxicity or interfere with other minerals in susceptible individuals.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
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While familiar favorites such as peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, and nectarines fall into the stone fruit category, some are more susceptible to pests and diseases than others.—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
13 June 2026
Adjective
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This handed unsophisticated attackers a preview of what’s coming.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
8 June 2026
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Still, the film has its rewards, mostly of the unsophisticated kind, since the fight sequences come fast and furious and the cheesy dialogue has enough groan-worthy one-liners to inspire a thousand drinking games.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
Adjective
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Identity and access management without identity governance becomes chaos, and identity management without visibility becomes an exploitable vulnerability.—
Morey Haber,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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For a Carolina team that’s hellbent on possession, that looks like an exploitable matchup if that pair can’t get their act together.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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The same breakfast and lunch buffets are also served in the smaller bistro on Deck 8, which provides some excellent views of the surroundings—not to mention easy access to outdoor decks if wildlife is spotted during a meal.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
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Fans who chose to take shuttle buses, as tournament organizers urged fans to do, generally seemed to have an easy commute.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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Southgate’s confident assertion that the tide of history was turning against bigotry now looks utopian, or even naïve.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
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Season 2 follows two couples on a path of mutual destruction, one older and jaded and one young and naive.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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By 2024 that gap reached 27 points – not because working-class voters lurched toward anti-government extremism, but because mainstream Democrats became dramatically more trusting of government as an instrument of social change.—
Nicholas Jacobs,
The Conversation,
2 June 2026
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Leadership is relational work, and warmth can make teams more trusting, more resilient and more willing to do difficult things together.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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But her star rose and that joyful, beautiful, rather guileless young woman trying to stay cool in a hot city summer lives forever.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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And yet the track that perhaps best represents Orange’s guileless spirit is the one tune here Presley didn’t write.—
Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
29 Apr. 2026
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