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During one particularly fun moment shared by the LPGA Tour on Instagram, Clark cracks up at Cunningham's energetic approach to the sport — which ended in her accidentally hitting a fan with the ball.—
Natasha Dye,
PEOPLE,
13 Nov. 2025
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Poor Indigenous, Black, the people from the favelas, when the police go there and kill 120 people there, and the population basically claps and thinks that that’s great.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
2 Dec. 2025
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Legacy is made from the small, repeatable disciplines no one claps for, but everyone benefits from.—
Cody Bjugan,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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This is one of the worst of them, with Alec Baldwin bravely fighting to bring Medgar Evers’s assassin to justice while Whoopi Goldberg cheers him on and cries.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
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Nothing good will ever happen to the Maple Leafs, or anyone who cheers for them.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Both he and his wife have been pictured giving Nazi salutes to their peers.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
15 Dec. 2025
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Their skill and sense of daring have been foundational for Davis, who simultaneously salutes their music and uses it as a vital launching pad for her own work.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Sarah Jessica Parker praises 'inspiration' Carol Burnett Legendary comedienne Burnett was in the audience, and Parker, 60, thanked her for both her artistic contributions as well as her life-changing impact on the star's family.—
Ema Sasic,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
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The party, organized by the US-Ireland Alliance, praises folks from Ireland — and some who are not — who contribute to film, television and music.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Jan. 2026
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The town applauds their arrival every April with the Migratory Bird Celebration, three days of bird banding, tours, and lectures.—
Kristy Christiansen,
Southern Living,
31 Dec. 2025
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Hilliker shouts as her family applauds them.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
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The see-through creation hails from Armani Privé's Fall/Winter 2021 Couture collection.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
11 Jan. 2026
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Saudi Arabia hails the dissolution as a win for regional stability and plans a Riyadh conference to address southern Yemen’s political future.—
Fatma Khaled,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Danny Glover received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which lauds individuals whose humanitarian work has credited the larger industry.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
21 Dec. 2025
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Baidu’s Li lauds AI’s potential for drug discovery, imaging proteins and treatments down to the molecular level to fully comprehend the structure of cancers and tumors.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Rises (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rises%20%28to%29. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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