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The wounds and humiliations of private life can rarely be redressed by law; literature offers a parallel tribunal in which those hurts are litigated and, if possible, imaginatively overcome.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026 -
Communities endured the triple indignity of working on the statues and being both redressed and oppressed by those statues.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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Joao Pedro has improved in that role throughout the season, but having other physically strong attackers return from injury will be important.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Smartphone cameras have improved dramatically over the past decade, but the moment of capture still remains surprisingly difficult.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Since then the institutions of American aging have reproduced rather than ameliorated the inequalities and injustices of the wider American economy.—
Trevor Jackson,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Of course, with so many personnel across the agency already gone, some damage can’t be undone, but it will be greatly ameliorated.—
Mike Hirschberg,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The combination of an overloaded schedule, international travel and shortened preparation time increasingly produces mediocre matchups in premium television windows.—
Bobby Burack OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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Certain past emergency cases, such as the COVID pandemic, were exceptions in which those wait times were drastically shortened.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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Her 13th place there is unlikely to be bettered at the real thing.—
Jon O'Brien,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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The flipside to this generosity came via how Wrexham rescued 23 points from losing positions, a total only Watford (27) bettered.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
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Those qualities – the handheld instability, the textural grain – were not flaws to be corrected but signatures to be honored.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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If this is indeed corrected by the league, Clark would have only the sixth 30-point, 10-assist game in WNBA history.—
Jon Root OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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“Righted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/righted. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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