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Putin said Ukraine’s armed forces had a grave lack of manpower and desertions, while Russia had enough soldiers.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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The right’s schisms were on full display during AmericaFest, Turning Point USA’s annual conference, which took place in Phoenix this past weekend.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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But the debate over how to regulate AI has caused schisms not only in the industry but also within the conservative movement and Republican party.—
Samantha Waldenberg,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
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Their infidelities have left the people of 2119 trapped between loving the expansive then and the depreciated now.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, Lian and Wenyu wrestle with their own infidelities.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
22 Sep. 2025
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This could include sharing the results of the aforementioned A/B tests in a blog, conducting an email awareness campaign dispelling common misconceptions about passkeys, or building popups that briefly explain the benefits of passkeys at the login screen.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
3 Jan. 2026
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In 2025, misconceptions about AI flourished as people struggled to make sense of the rapid development and adoption of the technology.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
29 Dec. 2025
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This followed a dizzying number of deviations by Greene from the party line, dating back to early summer—foremost were her very public calls for the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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There may be slight deviations from the podcast audio.—
Amanda Luberto,
AZCentral.com,
10 Dec. 2025
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While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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In other words, some of those 110-year-olds might just be clerical errors.—
Rachel Macpherson,
Outside,
11 Jan. 2026
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After months of harping on these errors in film study and practices, Kerr finally went to an unconventional method to inspire change.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Defections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defections. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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