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pacifiers

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plural of pacifier

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This time around in talks with studios, union negotiators will be facing a new but familiar opponent on the other side of the table after longtime studio negotiator Carol Lombardini stepped down.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of negotiators

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Cryptography is embedded throughout applications, identity platforms, APIs, cloud services, firewalls, load balancers, proxies, certificate authorities, VPNs and software libraries.

— Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Britain says some of them have ended up acting as unwitting proxies for foreign states such as Iran or Russia.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

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For companies, congressional oversight usually creates legal and advisory costs, but adverse headlines are the greatest hazard, said attorneys and analysts.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
Earlier this year, Parker asked the Supreme Court to throw out the requirement to pay Maricopa County’s legal fees in the case, arguing such sanctions would deter attorneys from bringing aggressive or novel legal claims.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of attorneys

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The deputies found no warrants or weapons and did not issue citations for the minor violations, the suit states.

— Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
But while critics on the Israeli right railed against the deal, Netanyahu’s deputies worked behind the scenes to preserve it, according to correspondence obtained by TIME.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of deputies

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Kelly had previously served as one of the RNC’s liaisons to the Reagan White House.

— Mark Krasovic, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026
Think of Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Libra, from October 3 to November 13, as a steamy, scandalous romance novel that fuels our passions and liaisons.

— Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of liaisons

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But Raman’s answers never meandered and weren’t too elliptical, even when she was pressed by the able moderators.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Excessive false positives also overwhelmed the human moderators trying to detect dangerous accounts.

— Vicky Nguyen, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of moderators

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Belgal was shot by ICE Thursday, according to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who said agents surrounded the man and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple times.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
On the other hand, those whiz-bang AI agents could simply shift companies’ existing software spending rather than actually grow it as hoped.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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