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Conditioning ingredients like provitamin B5 and mango butter help lashes feel soft and flexible.—
Lily Wohlner,
Allure,
28 Mar. 2026 -
Toward the end of the final episode of Love Story, Constance Zimmer’s Ann Messina Freeman lashes out at Caroline Kennedy over her daughters’ deaths.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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When motion is detected, the camera automatically pans to the subject with a 360-degree field of view.—
George Yang,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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When the camera pans back to the stage, Green can be seen with blood trickling from his ear down his neck.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
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On the next page, David Greising faults Mayor Brandon Johnson for failing to adequately entice the Bears to stay in Chicago.—
Colleen Kujawa,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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The center’s report also faults Missouri and Kansas, along with many other states, for not taxing online gambling companies enough.—
Suzanne King,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2026
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Bouchard hammers the math, but fans and media are influenced by exciting plays, and everyone has bias about specific player types.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Using a large mallet, the magician hammers the automaton, played in the film by a real-life human actor, into smaller and smaller sizes.—
G. Allen Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
27 Feb. 2026
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On our hike, Jessie Krebs scolds her boots for sliding on a slick, house-size boulder.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
19 Mar. 2026
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While some online scolds didn’t like Johnson’s profanity, this has played well in Chicago, a city that has been ravenous for a winning Bears team since the 20th Super Bowl.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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Jones blames that impasse for kicking the financial stability of TSA officers like a football.—
Marvin Hurst,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Papperger blames the delays on Ukrainian bureaucracy.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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And Vance berates Democrats in a visit to Minneapolis.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
23 Jan. 2026
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Cast members performed on The Tonight Show and in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, in a sketch in which host Bad Bunny berates his friends for failing to grasp the movie’s brilliance.—
Eliza Berman,
Time,
9 Dec. 2025
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“Gibbets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibbets. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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