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Noun
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When the clip ended, Goldberg addressed a prior issue with the show's prompter.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The London punk rebels seized the revolutionary spirit of 1977 with their raw manifesto The Clash, then refined their sound with the flawed Give ‘Em Enough Rope.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, over in Britain, a vibrant antiwar movement brought on motion after motion in Parliament to cease fire and end all offensive operations against the rebels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Fishing with his father and grandfather was a welcome release, but school brought out his inner troublemaker.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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The show, set in Chicago, starred O’Neill as women’s shoe salesman Al Bundy, Sagal as his wife Peggy, Applegate as not-so-bright daughter Kelly and Faustino as troublemaker son Bud.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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That revelation prodded insurgents in British possessions from Ireland to Sierra Leone to take to the streets to assert their own ambitions for economic and political autonomy over the decades to come.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Ilana presents herself as a stout-hearted reformer who’s being targeted by fascistic insurgents but is secretly evil enough to engineer an apocalypse.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Musk’s incendiary political rhetoric and endorsement of AfD, Germany’s extremist, anti-immigrant party, have weighed on left-leaning consumers’ interest in the Tesla brand there.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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The pitch helped the Democratic nominee withstand Earle-Sears’ attacks on cultural issues, notably the Republican’s assertion that Spanberger is an extremist on transgender rights.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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In addition, famed promoter Don King signed her as his first female client in 1993.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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As a prize fight champion, Olympic gold medalist and now successful boxing promoter, Oscar De La Hoya should be the last person on earth who supports Jake Paul.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Recall the litigation over whether Trump could be disqualified from state ballots as an insurrectionist.—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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Kinzinger goes on to say that when the insurrectionist is one of their own, the rules are different.—
Tom Jurkowsky,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Aug. 2025
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Some parents call his rhetoric alarmist, and other researchers argue that his evidence isn’t strong enough to draw social media as the correlation behind the youth mental health epidemic.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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Of course, writing critically about AI without sounding alarmist is difficult.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Provoker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provoker. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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