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Alexander’s staging occasionally overdoes the comic exuberance.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026 -
But Maura never overdoes the feisty granny bit.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Meta, Anthropic and Apple all now use TPUs, as Google increasingly encroaches on a market cornered by Nvidia's graphics processing units.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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As the Chinese men shoot the breeze and play cards, a mob of armed white miners gathers over the hill and encroaches on the unsuspecting outsiders.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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That’s important, since many people make the mistake—both in the gym and daily life—of shrugging their shoulders up to their ears, which overuses the upper traps and elevates the scapula.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The video shows the religious leader begging the Lebanese Army not to withdraw from southern Lebanon, as Israel invades.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
5 Apr. 2026
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Acute myeloid leukemia begins in the bone marrow and typically invades the bloodstream thereafter, according to the American Cancer Society.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
17 Mar. 2026
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People who didn't opt for electronic payment and whose settlement amount exceeds $5 will receive a check in the mail, according to the settlement website.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Authorities have not yet officially disproven, for instance, some link between these three deaths, but any conceivable connection or sense of a coordinated series of assassinations quickly exceeds imaginative powers.—
Dan Adler,
Vanity Fair,
22 Apr. 2026
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But history suggests that war hardens political systems and entrenches dictatorships.—
Alex Shams,
Time,
14 Mar. 2026
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The brooding aesthetic that usually entrenches a McQueen show was given a bit of levity in Seán McGirr’s fall collection.—
Kevin Huynh,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
Verb
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New ‘economics of ownership’ and consumer frustration David Friedman, professor of law at Willamette University, nodded to the populist nature of the right-to-repair movement which transcends party lines and has been building for some time.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
25 Apr. 2026
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What should have been a collective effort of the imagination—a reminder that the story of our species transcends any one individual—now looks more like a vanity project, a permanent symbol of how radical ideas can be turned into private playthings.—
Alec Nevala-Lee,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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Blue Origin, founded and owed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has landed and reused its smaller New Shepard suborbital booster numerous times, but New Glenn surpasses New Shepard in difficulty and scale.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
19 Apr. 2026
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This show, which still prompts belly laughs from my daughter and me even after countless rewatches, meets and surpasses my mother’s bar.—
Jean Garnett,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Overutilizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overutilizes. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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