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Be careful not to break the stems on flowers like cosmos or coneflowers because a bent stem won't provide water to the bloom.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Aug. 2025 -
Be careful to navigate around these components and move slowly when cutting anything with a mix of hard and soft textures, Rade Vukmir, MD, professor of clinical emergency medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, tells SELF.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
5 Aug. 2025
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Andrew Brodsky, a professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin who has researched these issues, outlines practical ways to be more conscientious and intentional about our communication choices and patterns.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
5 Aug. 2025
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With its opaque rules and rigid customs, even the most conscientious traveler can put a foot wrong in Japan.—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Aug. 2025
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His style, as carefully layered as his father’s clothing, is one of punctilious paradox—the paradox being that Dyer is always performing not performing.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The following top 10 best horror movies of 2024 are all quality films that will stand the test of time thanks to their punctilious craft.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
1 Jan. 2025
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Created in 1958 by Lady Susana Walton—wife of British composer, Sir William Walton—with the help of English garden designer Russell Page, the breathtaking sanctuary reflects her five-decade devotion to its painstaking cultivation.—
Alexandra Kirkman,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Expected to last from a year to 15 months, the project entails three painstaking phases, which typically would have been carried out behind closed doors.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
30 July 2025
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In his small classroom, Ogren can be more attentive.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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With that, Gemini executed the malicious commands silently, with no indication to even an attentive user that anything was amiss. LLMs just want to be loved The prompt injection was also crafted to appeal to LLMs’ inborn propensity to please their users, a trait researchers call AI sycophancy.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
30 July 2025
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The house would always be spotlessly clean: the intense spiritual and aesthetic commitment of Ukrainians to their homes requires meticulous order.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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That same meticulous attention to detail has been carried into this glossy, members-club-meets-hotel in St Andrew’s Square.—
Katharine Sohn,
Architectural Digest,
15 Aug. 2025
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Be cautious when corresponding with unfamiliar accounts.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Rules were unclear, most people didn't understand the technology, and money flowing into the space was cautious.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jennifer Kale is a witch who is very guarded and needs to learn how to trust people, and keeps getting tested on that over and over again throughout the show.—
Brande Victorian,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Our spirits remain guarded, but high, for this one; the Venice Film Festival crowd seemed to eat it up.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
3 Sep. 2024
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“Nonnegligent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonnegligent. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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