Venus ends its Virgo run in your communication house, polishing your words with discernment.
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Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
5 Oct. 2025
Over the course of the next 36 years, McNally returned to the script again and again, rewriting, restaging, refining and polishing it into something that eventually became one of Broadway’s biggest hits of 2014 and ’15.
The somber atmospherics and satisfying weightiness allowed Dudamel to show off his new ensemble’s soloists and sections, which have prepped for his arrival by burnishing their sonic gold.
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Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
Sharon details how this squad helps Anthropic’s business, too, burnishing its reputation as the AI lab that cares the most about AI safety and perhaps winning it a more receptive ear in the corridors of power.
Some customers have even shared some DIY remedies online, such as rubbing coconut oil into the holes of the CloudTec midsole, focusing on areas where the squeaking is worse, including the heel and midfoot.
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Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
There’s a swagger to his game (ask Erik Gudbranson, who was ticked off at the Wild center rubbing his delay of game penalty in).
In a recent shining example of self-reflexive satire, Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (translated in 2022 from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell), gives us an 80-year-old Indian woman protagonist whose decision to travel to Pakistan disrupts the family’s expectations of women her age.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Reality Check is a Star series holding those with power to account and shining a light on their decisions.
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