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Perhaps the latter must be indulged a bit to build a platform for the former—forests sometimes need to burn in order to thrive.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026 -
His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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Teyana Taylor, ever the purposeful center of attention, donned a silver foil fringe look by Haider Ackermann for Tom Ford, but overdid it with a matching wig, converting her into a tinsel tree.—
Merle Ginsberg,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2026
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Piastri made an ambitious lunge on Norris in the penultimate lap, but overdid it and locked his front wheel, nearly crashing into his teammate.—
Sahil Kapur,
NBC news,
3 Aug. 2025
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After a federal judge ruled for the Justice Department, the merger was abandoned.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Abused, neglected, abandoned pigs At Willeyville Farm, Houk and, Jones-Willey and other volunteers were recently caring for about 40 pigs, with the goal of finding them adoptive homes.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 May 2026
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“Overindulged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overindulged. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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