This is some of the baggage that accompanies the most shadowy of sensations – a truly biological, psychological, social, cultural, environmental phenomenon, all mashed together.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
In the Philadelphia Phillies' 19-4 drubbing of the Atlanta Braves, Schwarber mashed four home runs, becoming just the 21st player in MLB history to do so.
Shoppers recommend slicing it before freezing so individual portions are ready to grab whenever a craving hits.
—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Sep. 2025
Its beauty lies in low-slung pastel buildings, pine forests edging the city, and ferries slicing through the Baltic toward fortress islands like Suomenlinna—while locals linger in cafés over cardamom buns or get cozy in harborside saunas.
Even the normally surefire element of a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, with its blasts of dissonance pumping up the squirm factor, adds to the heavy-going effect of a movie that seems to go out of its way to be grating.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025
But watching their unfinished work sit among the swells is grating, Crowley said.
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