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Noun
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And for a moment, sometime in the 1970s and early 1980s, this sense of possibility wasn’t just cultural brainwashing.—
Alissa Quart,
Time,
30 Aug. 2025 -
Conspiracies and brainwashing In Argentina, there was the troubling disappearance of five-year-old Loan Peña in Corrientes province.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The excuses have more to do with political expediency and gas lobbying than reality.—
Anshul Gupta,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Chris Bond, a spokesperson for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the primary lobbying group for health insurers, reiterated that statement on Monday.—
Helen Branswell,
STAT,
5 Jan. 2026
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Careers involving children, healing, cooking, interior design, real estate, food content, wellness, and lifestyle influencing thrive.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
23 Dec. 2025
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Since then, her career has expanded far beyond the brand, evolving into styling, influencing, and creative direction.—
Mecca Pryor,
Essence,
22 Dec. 2025
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Thanks to the miracle of intellectual property, free-enterprise and the prompting of a brilliant record executive, this unlikely collaboration brought together artists and professionals from very different walks of life—shattering geographic, racial, age and faith boundaries.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
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All of them gave concerning answers with minimal prompting.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Nov. 2025
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Another key feature of the new design is its 3-degree-of-freedom waist, which allows the robot to perform human-like movements such as bending, twisting, and side-swaying with precision.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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Riccardo’s performance encapsulates that frustration and jubilation, carrying the film on his charming, swaying shoulders.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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Due to a positive audience response to the pairing, the writers retconned the scene as a seduction, rather than rape.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
22 Dec. 2025
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For years, Laura's rape was treated as a sort of seduction — until 1998 when Luke and Laura's son Lucky (Jonathan Jackson) finds out the dark history behind his parents' romance.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Overpersuasion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpersuasion. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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