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The penalties can be draconian, but typically, the penalty for a non-willful violation is $10,000.Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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The rest of the Valley appeared to have been horrified by the candidate—particularly by his draconian and racist views on immigration, on which the tech industry relies.Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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Audiences also freaked out about the film's oppressive tight spaces and extremely effective horror sequences, giving The Descent its reputation as one of the scariest films of the 21st century.Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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The oppressive noon heat stifled my brain while sweat streamed from my temples.Alexis Landau, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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How does Reed manage to revisit some of the world’s most barbarous acts without succumbing to despair?K.J. Yossman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
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Netanyahu has voiced that idea repeatedly, both before and after the Hamas attack on October 7 — the idea that Israel is a bastion of Western civilization in an uncivilized, backward, and barbarous region.Vox Staff, Vox, 9 May 2024
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The match seemingly will involve all of the stars who just competed at Crown Jewel, only with a few extra major stars thrown in and the sadistic WarGames structure serving as the playground for the stars involved.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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Like the best thrillers of this ilk, though, its darkest impulses do not weigh it down but rather give it a sadistic, jet-black comic edge.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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The incident evokes the brutal post-Soviet years of murky executions in Russia among the political and business mafias.Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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The brothers were convicted in 1996 of murder with special circumstances in the brutal shotgun killings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, inside their Beverly Hills home.James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
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These ruggedized oscillators offer stability and reliability under harsh conditions, ensuring that communications and navigation systems can maintain accurate timing on the receiver side, even when GPS signals are compromised.Markus Lutz, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Despite their high elevation and harsh climate, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak weren’t simply outposts or rest stops, but cities with their own economies.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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The jihadi embrace of suicide attacks on civilians convinced many Americans, including many policymakers, that the United States was facing an inhuman foe.Monica Duffy Toft, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2023
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The best speedruns reduce epic games meant to take dozens of hours to single-digit minutes through a combination of exploiting glitch-enabled shortcuts and inhuman skill.Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2024
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Rooted in a myth suggesting that ravens were negligent or cruel because their babies typically left their nests at a young age, rabenmütter is a term used to guilt German mothers who emphasize their careers.Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 30 Oct. 2024
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Yet Waters began the season out of Kerr’s 12-man rotation, the victim of a cruel numbers game that a deep roster creates.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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