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Noun
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Despite their historical reticence to admit getting work done, men are benefiting from the new candor about plastic surgery and other cosmetic interventions.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
30 July 2025 -
The administration's reticence to release the information has fractured the MAGA movement, many of whom saw the Epstein files as a central issue in Trump's reelection campaign.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
16 July 2025
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That phonetic play alone already signals one of the project’s theoretical subterfuges: that of exploring the most advanced conditions of the subject’s annihilation as a foundational precondition for artistic authority.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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An especially Jewish theme in the seventeenth century was not only the necessity but the dignity of subterfuge; to have lived in the shadows of another people’s empire had a nobility of its own, captured in this exquisite and ambivalent image.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
Noun
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But what happens when their silence becomes the red flag?—
Laurie Shakur,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Since then, conservative groups have sought to ban the use of ballot drop boxes, citing the law's silence on their use.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Into the depths of a forest teeming with spotted creatures, each of them full of stealth and danger and desire enough to kill a man.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
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As Time explains, the whistles represent the group's preference for melee combat and stealth over the use of firearms.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Furtiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furtiveness. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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