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Stage directors and performers have attempted to excavate and animate that ambiguity, first dreamed up by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Hedda Gabler, for over a century.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025 -
His ambiguity has stirred controversy, given constitutional restrictions in the 22nd and 12th amendments on such a move.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Oct. 2025
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Barron’s and other outlets have questioned the SEC’s approach as private markets, including credit, eclipse public markets in size and opacity.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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His vision of simplifying the loan shopping process transformed an industry traditionally known for opacity and complexity into one where consumers could easily compare options online.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Eliza Varadi, a pediatrician in South Carolina, told me that the murkiness around insurance coverage, coupled with lower demand, has prompted her practice to start ordering COVID vaccines just one box at a time—each a batch of 10 doses—to minimize the potential for loss.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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With its sadistic violence, taboo sexuality, and grim depiction of postwar London, Peeping Tom was a flop that essentially ended the illustrious career of director Michael Powell, falling into obscurity until Martin Scorsese rescued it and rehabilitated its reputation with a 1979 rerelease.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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The 24-year-old has had quite the journey since she was plucked from obscurity at 17 years old to play Maria in Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story.—
Helen Mirren,
Glamour,
27 Oct. 2025
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