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Between 1,500 and 2,000 of Stuart’s men were killed or wounded in less than an hour, forcing the Jacobites to retreat and effectively ending the revolt.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025 -
On top of that, heroes aligning with whoever was cut are in open revolt, potentially refusing to pick up calls or outright walking off the job.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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For me, there’s always the perversity of getting on a trendy bandwagon and just liking it for the irony.—
Marc Malkin,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Here, Henkel leans into the inherent perversity that lingered in the sequels but has rarely been effectively employed since Hooper’s original.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Sep. 2025
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Wars and insurrections have afflicted other parts of the Middle East, but Baghdad—a city whose name was once synonymous with suicide bombings and sectarian murder—has been spared.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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This is not Lozano’s first brush with insurrection.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2025
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The contrast between these quick results and the stubbornness of the Nopert holdouts made some mathematicians suspect that true Noperts do exist.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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There are many stories about artists whose stubbornness prevented them from changing with the times.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
24 Oct. 2025
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For him, obstinacy was far worse than correction.—
Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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Most tragically, the Palestinians have been given abundant reason to believe that obstinacy and terrorism are far better tools than concession and diplomacy.—
Tom Rogan,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Sep. 2025
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To be clear, there is no sense that Rondón and Ugás are defending the old guard or suggesting that a docile, starving population pinioned under the grip of a dictatorship is big-picture preferable to a rebellious insurgency.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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Those militias first emerged in 2014 to help the Iraqi army fight the ISIS insurgency.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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In 2023, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin staged a brief mutiny, sending his fighters toward Moscow before abruptly standing down only to die weeks later in a plane crash.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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The good news here is that there’s no mutiny on deck in Santa Clara.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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The death toll has increased to six people in a multi-state listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat pasta products sold at stores such as Walmart, Kroger and Trader Joe's.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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As of late October, the outbreak has killed six people and sickened 27, all but two of whom were hospitalized, according to last week's update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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