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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eight balls
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What started as a protest against outsiders controlling the town turned into a decades-long tradition that still lives on today.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025 -
All factor into Chelsea’s estimations as outsiders for the title.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Surrounded by a diverse group of military misfits, the colonel tries to reinstate discipline and professionalism with the help of the base’s previous interim leader, who just happens to be his estranged daughter, Captain Maggie Quinn (Taylor Misiak).—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb in the series, the curmudgeonly and flatulent chief of Slough House where all the MI5 misfits are sent.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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The unscripted industry was born from creative mavericks who challenged conventions and redefined what television could be.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
19 Dec. 2024
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Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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