In addition, there is the servant Smerdyakov, presumed to be the illegitimate child of Fyodor and the intellectually disabled Lizaveta, nicknamed Stinking Lizaveta.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
In Florida, which has more departments with 287(g) agreements than any other state, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent $245 million to set up a temporary detention center nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz.
In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.
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Kristin Lam,
USA TODAY,
20 Nov. 2019
In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.
Square Enix develops, publishes, distributes and licenses Square Enix and Taito branded entertainment content throughout the Americas.
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Todd Spangler,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
In 2017, Universal released a new take on The Mummy, which starred Tom Cruise and was intended to launch a new franchise branded Dark Universe, based on the studio's classic monster titles.
Chiefly, many doctors say the label is largely responsible for stigmatizing hormone therapy and discouraging many women from taking it and doctors from prescribing it.
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Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
10 Nov. 2025
The higher-education sector once stigmatized these trade and technical schools.
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