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Reverence for the past, and reluctance to destroy until the risks of destruction are fully known, is not timidity but wisdom, in architecture as in life.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025 -
The timidity of the tactics was utterly shameful.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Would-be autocrats create environments of fear and powerlessness, using intimidation, overwhelming force or political and legal attacks, and other coercive tactics to force acquiescence and chill democratic pushback.—
Shelley Inglis,
The Conversation,
19 Oct. 2025
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Yet, the lesson of the Voting Rights Act is that the response to these setbacks isn’t despair or acquiescence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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White supremacy is constructed and maintained by Black service work and by the extraction of a social performance of deference.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Though the recent firings have come under legal scrutiny, and will likely remain paused for the foreseeable future, the Supreme Court has given broad deference to Trump over federal hiring so far in his second term.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
19 Oct. 2025
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Scott was completing a yearlong master’s program in mathematics, and Noone, a doctoral candidate five years his senior, was charmed by the contrast between his good looks and his diffidence.—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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And has done so with the kind of diffidence that can only come from a lifetime in the sports backwaters.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Aug. 2025
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Twice a year, companies put together their submissions—usually, clusters of CPUs and GPUs and software optimized for them—and compete to see whose submission can train the models fastest.—
Dina Genkina,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2025
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Management anticipates a launch in the United States for obesity next year, with a submission for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes sometime in the first half of 2026.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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This one strikes a mid-century chord with its wide face and retro time display, with an atomic dial and silent-sweep movement to maximize quietness.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
21 Oct. 2025
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But, unsurprisingly, his favorite aspect of the place is its profound quietness.—
Rosecrans Baldwin,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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Although it’s still considered rare, it’s often misdiagnosed as shyness — which can delay treatment.—
Erin Silvia,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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And the ego needed to overcome shyness and stage fright collides with the endless rejection that defines the profession.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Retiringness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retiringness. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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