prolegomenon

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Noun
  • Trump's relationship with both sports and celebrity culture has been a recurring feature of his political brand, and his responses to public figures like Swift often ignite widespread debate and online discourse.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Both Seehorn and Gilligan have stressed to THR that Carol Sturka is not an attempt to relitigate the Skyler White discourse.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But alongside discussion of the hottest AI startups and new breakthroughs, Goldman Sachs had to set the record straight on one question.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Which makes for interesting discussion, this week and beyond, when the selection committee convenes.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In the six-month-long outdoor study conducted on the roof of the Sydney Nanoscience Hub, dew could be collected over 32 percent of the year and so could provide a sustainable and predictable supply of water even in periods with no rain.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2025
  • As for the safety of the drug, about 10% of the adults taking enlicitide experienced serious adverse events during the study and a similar share, about 12%, of those taking a placebo experienced adverse events in the study.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Keep a distance from water, wet articles, and metal objects.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Betting/odds, ticketing and streaming links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the years of material the film needs to fill in, its large cast of screenwriters keeps a lot of exposition admirably economical (well, until the finale).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Even amid some clunky exposition, Welcome to Derry has at least managed to offer compelling horror set pieces to keep heart rates up.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Whereas the play only obliquely references the character’s successful new novel, this version presents Eileen’s manuscript — co-written with her mousy lover Thea (Imogen Potts), a former schoolmate of Hedda’s — as a revelatory treatise on the future of human sexuality.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
  • For hundreds of years, physicians and scientists wrote treatises on its health benefits.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But as Sargeant argues, drawing on an essay by the conservative writer Felix James Miller, treating a husband as only a provider reduces him to a fungible funding source, rather than an integral part of a family with his own unique contributions to make.
    Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Dakota Johnson, a Valentino ambassador who also stars in the campaign, sung McRae's praises in an accompanying essay.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The two men exchange grateful texts later that evening, home safe and stumped about where to go next.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Prolegomenon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prolegomenon. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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