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Mexico forward Raul Jimenez paid an emotional tribute to his former teammate Diogo Jota after scoring a crucial equalizer against the United States in Sunday’s Concacaf Gold Cup final.—
Martin Rogers,
New York Times,
7 July 2025 -
Stoner, a Disney Channel veteran, first opened up about their sexuality in 2018, penning an emotional essay for Teen Vogue.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
7 July 2025
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Despite her lofty ambitions, the avant-pop singer is at her most compelling when grounded in the earthly pleasures of four-to-the-floor beats and straightforward, theatrical hooks.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
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IndieWire debuts the official stateside trailer exclusively below, and ahead of the film’s theatrical release starting June 26.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
15 June 2026
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Transposing the book onto a contemporary setting, Jude’s take centers on an impoverished Romanian migrant, Gianina, played by a sensational Ana Dumitrașcu, who finds work as a housekeeper and au pair for a smugly bourgeois-bohemian couple living in Bordeaux.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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Real Madrid has signed José Mourinho to a three-year deal as its new manager until June 30, 2029, the club announced on Thursday, marking a sensational return for the two-time Champions League winner to the Spanish capital.—
Patrick Sung Cuadrado,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
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Even the recipe deemed sacrilegious in Carbonaragate cannot evoke the same dramatic reactions or touch the same sensitivities that surround cheese—a relationship that, like wine and bread, is often inseparable from faith, sometimes quite literally.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Day hikes such as the Bright Angel Point Trail highlight the dramatic canyon views, but be careful as the trails can get steep.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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The plots tend to be melodramatic — a female lead is swept off her feet by a dashing vampire (or CEO).—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
13 Nov. 2025
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His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Josh Groban is best known for his operatic baritone, not his dancing.—
Rodney Ho,
AJC.com,
15 June 2026
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Equally impressive are its songs, including one that’s movingly operatic.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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“Emotionalistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalistic. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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