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The logic was sound: own the infrastructure, capture margin, and secure Western chip sovereignty, but execution has been, at best, uneven.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025 -
This execution and much of the rest of Materialists is disappointing, with the memory of the very high highs of Song's previous feature, Past Lives, doing it no favors.—
Aisha Harris,
NPR,
21 June 2025
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To be fair, the effacement of character is itself one of Leitch’s dramatic points.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
2 May 2024
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There are times in The Years when the betrayal and effacement of May compels Ernaux to say something similar.—
Tobi Haslett,
Harper's Magazine,
18 Sep. 2023
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Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.—
David Peduto,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2025
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His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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The following week, Musk’s cushy relationship with the Trump administration suffered a similar disintegration.—
Guthrie Scrimgeour,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2025
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As the flag vanished, only stars and ash remained—an image of disintegration, or perhaps transformation.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.—
Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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The church's pastor, Clementa Pinckney, was one of the people killed in the massacre.—
Mark Strassmann,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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Both opened with a car crash and closed with an assassination attempt on the attorney general.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
19 June 2025
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Iran ordered an assassination attempt against Trump and tried to kill an Iranian-American journalist living in Brooklyn.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
19 June 2025
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Despite official reassurances, the currency markets are painting a different picture — one of accelerating collapse.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2025
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The new legislation was passed in the aftermath of the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside in June 2021 which killed 98 people.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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In February, Mexico sent 29 cartel figures — including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985 — to the U.S. for prosecution.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 June 2025
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Following the killing, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) issued a Red Notice on Cabrera, officials said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
19 June 2025
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“Dismantlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismantlement. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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