1
as in walks over
to show contempt for
one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite
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as in isolates
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street
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The film looks to be both an homage to the old New York that inspired everyone from Scorsese to the Safdies and a satire of how modernization isolates us from analogue traditions.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
21 Jan. 2026 -
The standing side crunch isolates each side of your waist and strengthens your obliques.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
31 Dec. 2025
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California’s Democratic establishment disdains Citizen Pratt.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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Kleinfeld disdains the concept of work-life separation.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
22 Aug. 2025
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In that view, Portland rejects the need for the deployment of ICE agents into our neighborhoods.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The bill also rejects a funding cut proposed for the Transportation Security Administration by the White House, which had sought a 3-4% cut to TSA staffing levels — with half to stop staffing exit lanes that let people re-enter public areas from secure parts of an airport.—
Reuters
Wire Service,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Jan. 2026
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This all tends to be a bit of a circus — tenants get mad, landlords get mad, then the board comes out with a number everyone hates.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
6 Jan. 2026
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Pelosi too pushed back on the idea that the rest of the country hates California.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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In addition to callous disregard for former Marylanders’ livelihoods and well-being, by not maintaining the voter rolls, the State Board of Elections disrespects every single Marylander who has a right to vote.—
Nicolee Ambrose,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Jan. 2026
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Lee disrespects national park values with these twin bills, and Curtis, who likes to tout his nature sensitivity on hikes with constituents, should know better.—
Stephen Trimble,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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Counterintuitively, some analysts think that the investigation now makes near-term interest rate cuts less likely, because Powell and the other members of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) will be determined to show the markets that they are guided by the data and not legal threats.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Cutting out any that have negative revenue revisions over the past month cuts that in half again to 100 stocks.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
12 Jan. 2026
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Policing women is a byproduct of patriarchy, a system that despises women who dare to embrace individualism, self-expression, and self-autonomy.—
Essence,
Essence,
5 Jan. 2026
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Melissa Fields, the founder of Shades of Gray Design Studio, greatly despises seeing workout supplies in the bedroom.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
30 Dec. 2025
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