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There were no major returning actors or ongoing storylines, save for the Yautja’s somewhat inexplicable obsession with intergalactic trophy hunting, and most attempts to reboot the property failed to explain why this series should exist in the first place.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025 -
What’s lingering beneath the surface — jealousy, passion, obsession — is brought to life.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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But Strummer always had a puritanical zeal about his punk mission and a terror of getting corrupted by fame.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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Lewis, with his convert's zeal, became a culture hero to 20th-century Christians for his many writings on faith.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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These symptoms may include fever, muscle aches, fatigue, headache, confusion, loss of balance or seizures.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Symptoms can include swelling in the neck or armpit, fatigue, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and feeling full quickly.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The infatuation spawned after beauty moguls Kylie Jenner, Hailey Bieber and Mikayla Nogueira touted the efficacy of Medicube’s PDRN products, including its Pink Peptide Serum and Pink Collagen Capsule Cream at the top of the year.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
26 Dec. 2025
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The historian doesn’t explain away Moore’s infatuation and personal association with the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, who in 1975 invited her to attend a meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Kampala.—
Dara T. Mathis,
The Atlantic,
16 Dec. 2025
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Some of this slashing and burning can be explained by the old-fashioned small-government fanaticism of administration personnel like Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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The fan fanaticism and audience interaction that led to its midnight-movie cult status have helped make The Rocky Horror Picture Show the longest-running theatrical release in history.—
Katherine Turman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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The attendees—thirty- and forty-somethings who are members of the bank’s Private Wealth Management (PWM) division, which boasts an average account size of over $75 million—gathered to hash out their anxiety and excitement.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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Bring the excitement off the screen and into the real world with this fun hide and seek figure, which encourages active play with a timer and spoken clues to lead kids to her hiding spot.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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Listen to him bum-rush a workers’ union meeting and begin describing, with over-enthusiastic earnestness, how dogs get a raw deal.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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Though the score is anthem-heavy and earnestness is always hovering, there are moments in the show that are transcendent.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Depending on the recipe, it is infused with orange blossom or citrus zest, resembling an American fruit cake.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
5 Jan. 2026
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Archery Summit 2023 Chardonnay has aromas of Anjou pear, citrus blossom, and mandarin zest with balanced acidity and flavors of honeydew and cantaloup melons, candied orange peel, and brown baking spices.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Hot-bloodedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot-bloodedness. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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