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Noun
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The Pistons are gritty, but the salient quality of Cunningham’s game is its smoothness.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026 -
This was an Obstacle Avoidance nightmare where the smoothness of flight would have been impossible, even if the mode was set to Nifty.—
James Abbott,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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No matter the role, that toughness was always there, a desire to push against the artificiality of acting to get at something true and lived-in within his characters.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
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Like their future disciples in PC Music, Scritti Politti were giddy pop fans who approached the form as self-conscious outsiders, foregrounding its artificiality, pushing its bright colors to new extremes, aiming to make great pop records that also asked probing questions about what pop even is.—
Andy Cush,
Pitchfork,
15 Feb. 2026
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Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.—
Tina Nguyen,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
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Premiering in 2004, Project Runway was instrumental in ushering in a new style of reality competition based on skill rather than duplicity and cynicism.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Feb. 2026
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Below, shop our nine favorite formulas that a suit a range of concerns, from oiliness and hair loss, to dryness and dandruff.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
20 Jan. 2026
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Medium-full, with impressive concentration and excellent ripeness; there is a slight oiliness on the palate, along with very good acidity and significant persistence.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Now Claude knew that Claude had a propensity for fakery.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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What would be the point of them doing obvious fakery?—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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For the most part though, For the First Time, Again is weighed down by oversinging and emotional affectation.—
Millan Verma,
Pitchfork,
30 Jan. 2026
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The self-conscious aspiration to hipness here is unfortunate and decidedly not cool, but some may find such affectations quaint.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Glibness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glibness. Accessed 8 Mar. 2026.
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