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as in silty
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as in unsettled
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Feeling unsettled by Dalloway’s increasingly intrusive presence, Clarissa is warned by Mathias, a whistleblower artist who tells her about the true motives behind the residency and the tech company funding it.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
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Feeling unsettled, the customer deletes the app and warns their friends, damaging the app's reputation.Mani Padisetti, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Bill undergoes a moral crisis when his path crosses with a wretched head nun (Emily Watson) at a convent that’s part of the notorious Magdalene Laundries — a place of severe abuse of women.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Hurricane Oscar made landfall in far eastern Cuba around the same time as the blackout, throwing a one-two punch that has sapped precious resources in a country suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone (who earned an Emmy nomination for her work in the show) make a formidable duo as an author and a police officer, respectively, investigating the brutal murder of a 14-year-old girl in a small town in Canada.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) uncovered Jamie's scheme and began plotting her own brutal counterstrike.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Brown, slimy, or overly soft roots are a sign of a plant disease such as root rot.Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2024
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He’s had a decent run in recent years playing a little slimy, stealing scenes as a cad in Fleishman Is in Trouble and drawing out pathos as a doubting son of a murderous family in the 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
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The decision is an outright and unbridled expression of my unquiet mind.Outside Online, Outside Online, 10 July 2024
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The calamity at Waco, the shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada, unquiet literary unions, a new thriller from Sweden and more.Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
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On Utiel’s Avenida del Milagro, residents work together to remove muddy water from their homes.Sophie Tanno, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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There are also more-than-adequate storage spaces in the large center console annd all four doors. CHANGE: The ride quality The ride quality is a little harsher in the Sorento than in some of its competitors, especially with the 20-inch wheels and lower profile tires the tester came equipped with.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Trump’s comments on Taiwan have been unusually harsh for China policy in Washington, where there is a general bipartisan consensus to be tough on Beijing and Xi, who has pledged to reunify with Taipei, by force if necessary.Brad Dress, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
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In this salad, peppery arugula, an oozy, creamy burrata and crunchy pistachios balance and enhance the fruit.Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
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The demon boar attacks Princess Mononoke (1997) Tomm Moore: The opening sequence, with the big forest god covered in the dark oozy stuff, is cut like a crazy action fantasy, like Star Wars or something.Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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