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as in blundering
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as in dripping
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as in spilling
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The broadest of comedies, the film’s often puerile humor is driven by an endless stream of male bungling, blundering and whining, only to be kicked up a notch by pratfalls of nearly every variety, from getting bucked off a galloping horse to tripping into a pile of trash.—
Natalia Winkelman,
Variety,
27 May 2026 -
Right now, the source of the disruption in the airline industry is the President’s blundering rather than a financial meltdown that originated on Wall Street.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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To prevent that, some operators maintain low oil flow rates, akin to dripping a faucet in freezing cold weather to avoid frozen pipes.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
27 May 2026
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Elsewhere, the project is dripping with craft.—
TC Sottek,
The Verge,
27 May 2026
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That Field finds herself in this state is a low moment indeed; even the human performers in the sitcom My Mother the Car escaped with more dignity than a two-time Oscar-winning actress spilling her soul to a cephalopod mollusk.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
30 May 2026
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Goolsbee said policymakers should watch for signs that stock market gains linked to AI are spilling into broader inflation pressures.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
28 May 2026
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But some residents say the property was poorly maintained, with one reporting sewage seeping into her bathtub.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
27 May 2026
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Higher fuel costs are seeping into the price of some consumer goods, Hanks said.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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Her photographs and articles exposing the violence of the conflict set her apart from conventional war reporting.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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But Nassar was also wary of exposing the gap between the state’s authority and its actual power.—
Euan Ward,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Skarsgård’s character James ejaculating at the beach after a sudden handjob by Mia Goth’s freewheeling Gabi.—
Gustavo Turner,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2026
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However, right around the same time the conflict in the Middle East began, tax refunds started trickling in.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
1 June 2026
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And refusing to keep any kind of part-time income trickling in only further complicates the situation.—
Wes Moss,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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In a loss, OpenAI could face pressure to implement remedies like age-gating free ChatGPT accounts to protect kids, shutting down conversations that discuss violence and suicide, and removing features that the state says deceptively make ChatGPT feel like talking to a human.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
1 June 2026
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Cannavaro is not the first global football star to infiltrate Uzbek football (Rivaldo played for Bunyodkor for three years towards the end of his career) but his appointment certainly got a football-mad nation talking.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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“Leaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaking. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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