No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
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Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
17 Jan. 2025
The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?
Boomers’ children aren’t getting hitched as easily, and those who do are less likely to split up.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2025
That allowed Igor Jesus to put Botafogo in front to stay shortly before the intermission, splitting a pair of PSG defenders to run on to Jefferson Savarino’s perfectly weighted through ball, then beating keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma from the top of the box.
The white shark sheared the striped bass in half, and then quickly took off.
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Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
3 June 2025
The California coast typically benefits from cooler water that flows southward along the coast and winds that tend to either shear the tops off hurricanes or push them westward away from the coast.
The prospect of trying to cut open a stubborn 5-4-1 block in the Orlando heat could have become torturous quite quickly.
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Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
In February, the agency announced plans to cut 7,000 of the agency’s 57,000 employees ‒ more than 10% of staff ‒ in response to President Trump’s executive orders.
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