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Noun
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Indexing or eliminating caps would shift the burden from those least able to pay and smooth market frictions hurting families of all ages.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025 -
Together, these Cardinal energies create friction between the desire for compromise and the raw truth surrounding a situation.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Amid the nineteenth-century tension between nation and state, those who sided with the nation included many antisemites.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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How do those two versions of you coexist, and how did that tension shape HELLA PRESSURE?—
Christopher Claxton,
Billboard,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In spite of their differences, Mom and Dad were the perfect yin and yang of parents.—
Janine Rubenstein,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Civil society has been driving solutions forward—in spite of political gridlock.—
David Miliband,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025
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Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.—
Sable Yong,
TIME,
28 June 2024
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Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Disboard lists many public discord servers and many young coders use the site, contributing a different demographic of coders.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Sep. 2025
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But warning signs of discord between networks and affiliates had been flashing for years.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
20 Sep. 2025
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Doctors prescribe Keytruda for a wide variety of cancers, including malignancies in the lungs, skin, colon, gastrointestinal tract, and reproductive organs.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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For children who received a head CT, the researchers attributed about a quarter of their hematologic malignancies that followed to the radiation exposure.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The slant to the sun and the coolness when the sun goes down signal that the fall season will indeed arrive.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
21 Sep. 2025
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What interests me is the conversation between surfaces, glossy against matte, the warmth of wood beside the coolness of stone.—
Kissa Castaneda,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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When so many of today’s complaints—the loneliness of young people, the torturous dating market, the loosening of community bonds—come down to interpersonal alienation, the idea of American culture returning to a primal, highly evolved signal of kinship and compatibility is tantalizing.—
Franklin Schneider,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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The choice before us is whether that void becomes a source of alienation or an opening to rediscover passion in our work.—
John Winsor,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Inhospitableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhospitableness. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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