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This '90s sci-fi show dispatched a quartet of mismatched adventurers on a long-running series of adventures across parallel Earths — places where the Soviet Union rules the United States, or the Golden Gate Bridge is blue rather than orange.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
12 Jan. 2026 -
Then there was a black and navy dress that played with mismatched textures, with its navy plissé paired and leather and lace segments.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
5 Jan. 2026
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Sure, pundits and Twitter philosophers love to portray bowl games as irrelevant relics of the past that nobody cares about anymore.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
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The characters are lying, to themselves and to each other, but the role of the audience in believing or not believing their lies is totally irrelevant.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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Trump administration officials have suggested that Powell either lied about changes to the building or altered plans in ways that are inconsistent with those approved by planning commissions.—
Christopher Rugaber,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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Drinkers sometimes complained that wines tasted weird and crazy, not just wild, and inconsistent from bottle to bottle.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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In 2023, the Supreme Court declared the bill inapplicable.—
Javier Bastardo,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Here are the kicking motion rules, which the NHL deemed inapplicable given their determination that Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his own net.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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The fact Mahomes got hurt is immaterial to the fact the Chiefs were always bound to fall.—
Andrew Callahan,
Hartford Courant,
5 Jan. 2026
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Those details are immaterial now.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Jan. 2026
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Since both of those earlier years were influenced by a strong El Niño event, this one will have the dubious distinction of being the hottest without such an extraneous force.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2025
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Tech and data aren’t extraneous.—
Maggie Johnson,
Fortune,
8 Dec. 2025
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Most modern cars are supported by up to a million lines of code, and frequent updates can quickly make some features incompatible.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
15 Jan. 2026
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The results revealed a genetic predisposition that made Alex immunologically incompatible with Paul’s DNA.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Yet Hiller’s latest equivocating mea culpa, with the now-familiar language of hardship and defeatism so unbecoming of a professional hockey team, rang unconvincing.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Even so, David’s push for recognition struck some in the industry as unbecoming.—
Reeves Wiedeman,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Misbecoming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misbecoming. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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