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Recent Examples of overutilizeThe urge to intervene in places of peripheral concern to U.S. interests, to overreact to threats, to overutilize military force in dealing with terrorists and others—these outlasted Obama.—Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
Its two pressure settings are powerful enough to clear away plaque without overdoing it, all in a compact design that tucks neatly under the sink or into your carry-on.
In that complaint, Disney argues that the expiration of its copyright to Steamboat Willie doesn’t allow competitors to infringe on its trademarks, which protect brands.
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Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, wrote in a July op-ed for the Sacramento Bee that wearing a mask does not infringe on ICE agents or the federal government’s ability to perform their duties, and therefore the law should be constitutional.
The atmosphere of a Gothic novel creeps over you; encroaching mist along the outcroppings.
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Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
The screen’s bulk and curvature strain outward to encroach upon viewers, who watch from tiered bleachers enclosed on three sides by a chain-link fence.
During the 2022 incident, an unknown person motioned toward Newton to arrest Mitchell for trespassing.
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Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
30 Sep. 2025
Denver7 reported that authorities had received three reports of a suspicious person trespassing on private properties along State Highway 103 this week, including two properties on Peaceful Valley Lane in Idaho Springs on Monday.
On October 7, 2023, as a terrorist army invaded Israel intending to commit genocide against the Jewish people, many world leaders rightly condemned Hamas’ murder, rape, and slaughter of Israelis and foreign nationals.
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Ofir Akunis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies.
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