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Toteme’s vibrant crimson trench enlivens your look, proving that bold color and classic tailoring aren’t just compatible but could actually be a match made in heaven.—
Minty Mellon,
Vogue,
15 Jan. 2026 -
Artwork by Alisa Galitsyna enlivens the room.—
Kathryn O'Shea-Evans,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps the thought of former pros populating college sports and taking spots away animates Congress to act, but the track record isn’t promising.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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The ensuing density of pattern pressing against pattern animates a play of geometries and rhythms that links Keïta’s visual schemas to those of European abstraction.—
Zoë Hopkins,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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The resulting menu infuses Asian flavors into coffee drinks.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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His live-wire performance, seemingly inspired by numerous previous screen depictions of psychopathic bad guys, infuses the proceedings with welcome kinetic energy.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Create a front yard that invigorates all the senses by adding a soothing water feature.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
31 Jan. 2026
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Johnson, whose impulsively thoughtful way with dialogue is one of the delights of recent cinema, invigorates the movie with her mercurial energy.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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Patriotism suffuses the Made in America movement.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
29 Nov. 2025
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An international cult favorite, Lee is revered for the philosophical nerve that suffuses his rigorously inventive melodramas, which variously pick apart the complexities of Korean society.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Aug. 2025
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Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia only in 1991, and for this young nation, sport imbues it with a sense of pride.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Kikuchi, for her part, imbues the character with dimensions by turns gentle and thorny, but Haru’s unwillingness to meaningfully confront her loss is a blind spot that ends up applied to the story as a whole.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the committee said young children should receive one vaccine for chickenpox and a different shot known as MMR that inoculates against measles, mumps and rubella.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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Develop Character To Combat Cognitive Warfare Developing and strengthening character inoculates individuals.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Leavens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leavens. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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