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Adjective
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There’s a twisted wit to the setup here, as Kolstad takes real trends in American life — economic stagnation, rising tribalism, gun fetishism — and follows them to their corrupt, violent end points.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025 -
When those two go rogue, Ulysses enlists Gunderson’s misunderstood adult child, Alex (Jess McLeod), who’s like the wide-eyed kid to Odenkirk’s Shane, in this movie’s twisted-Western logic.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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On August 8, a gunman warped by vaccine disinformation opened fire on the CDC campus.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
27 Aug. 2025
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Unfolding in the days just after the father’s arrest, Zhang’s novel travels back and forth through time to reveal its protagonist’s path to domestic work, and the ways in which wealth and power have warped her employers’ most intimate experiences.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The skunk with distemper is stuck in the window well again, chewing incessantly on the garden hose that is coiled up in there.—
Miriam Toews
September 3,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Inside each 13-centimeter-long rectangular 8-track cartridge is a loop of almost 1 cm-wide magnetic tape that is coiled around a circular reel, as explained in an EverPresent blog post on the technology.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The curved design trend has delivered an abundance of playful pieces to homes over the past couple of years.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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The video of serene waves that swished behind the curved stage at the start of Dua Lipa’s concert slowly intensified until the tide became a surge, an appropriate analogy for the pop superstar’s arrival in the US for the first time in more than three years.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Ronny curled into the passenger seat and switched the track to a rolling-bass beat from Future.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
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The white beard, the twinkling eyes behind round spectacles, the mustache curled with wax at its ends are all real, all his.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Not only that, it is intimately entwined with the Saudi state.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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And it’s entwined with furthering the cause of mental health support and awareness in the name of Ryan, who died by suicide last December.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Fixed a bug where Guardian's Wings of Salvation Ultimate Art could be deflected and interrupted.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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On the next Browns possession, Joe Flacco’s pass to Jerry Jeudy was deflected into the air by the receiver into the hands of Jordan Battle.—
Mike Straw,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While conspiracy theories swirled online about his death, Trump himself even retweeted a conspiracy theory connecting Clinton to Epstein's death.—
Martha McHardy
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Trade speculation has swirled around Crosby for about five years now.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Kinked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinked. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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