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Where the show’s values were once givens, almost diorama labels, now they’re presented as more fugitive and unstable, what its characters would hope the world to be.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025 -
Among geologists, there are givens: Humans don’t build things that last a million years.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
8 Oct. 2025
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But for Yorgos Lanthimos and his stars, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, former Succession writer Will Tracy’s script was simply so good that taking a swing at the uncategorizably strange premise that would become Bugonia was a no-brainer.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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That's actually the whole premise of Catania's new Laura Geller Beauty campaign.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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By insisting on presumption, not persuasion, the public health mainstream has been doing much of Kennedy’s work on undermining vaccines for him.—
Peter M. Sandman,
STAT,
26 Jan. 2026
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But the presumption is Russian subs.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Not that the publishing industry can’t or shouldn’t address the more general problem Kuznetsova highlights, which applies to this dictum, too.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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And, so, to counteract this bias, poker players have come up with the following dictum (often offered up as a taunt): Scared money don't make money.—
NPR,
NPR,
25 Nov. 2025
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The reason, the authors of a new study postulate, has to do with light pollution.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Aug. 2025
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Now, tangible results have emerged in a field replete with postulates and presumptions.—
Jenna Ahart,
Quanta Magazine,
2 July 2025
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Here was a Hollywood legend who carved out a rocky, high-altitude perch from which a different kind of film artist—one less beholden to the Hollywood doctrine of the bottom line—might emerge.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
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The public trust doctrine dictates the state holds navigable waters in trust for the public up to the ordinary high water mark − a visual mark left by water.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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The Library of Congress has discussed these hypotheticals, but notes neither the 12th nor the 22nd Amendment clearly addresses such scenarios.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Dec. 2025
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That runs counter to decades of assumptions about Chondrichthyan fishes, the group that includes sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The report calls into question assumptions in many circles, including in the White House, that a Russian victory in Ukraine is inevitable and incoming.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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