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This is all in the first three paragraphs, and the breakdowns—a capacious category that, for Lemann, seems to encompass everything from rages to amiable fugues—do not let up.—
Brandy Jensen,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026 -
The rank bigotry of a neo-Nazi newsletter filters through folks like Sean’s parents and sister (a very funny Kate Berlant) — which is to say conservatives, but mostly amiable ones.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Leave some patches of empty ground for docile, ground-dwelling bees that are important pollinators.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Cellphone footage shows Zack holding the leash of an exceptionally docile German shepherd while ordering his uninvited guests to leave.—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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At the top will be the most computationally intensive methods—prohibitively expensive on classical computers but tractable on quantum computers.—
Chi Chen,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Mar. 2026
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Thanks to housing crises in big cities, many aspiring writers can’t afford rooms of their own, and contractions in the media industry have made writing as a profession less tractable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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Always obedient, Agnes happily welcomes Daisy despite Shu’s warnings.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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Her son, Navaraj, is obedient and dutiful.—
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
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The more submissive the manager is, the more Frenza will rip into her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
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The project, which premiered at Sundance in January, is a zany and absurd exploration of a dominant-submissive relationship.—
Juliana Ukiomogbe,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
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Only West Ham United (8.5), Wolves (7.8), Newcastle United (7.6) and Manchester United (4.6) have been more obliging to their opponents than Leeds.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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In civil aerospace, for example, Rolls is benefiting as manufacturers Airbus and Boeing struggle to deliver new aircraft at the pace the market requires — obliging airlines to keep flying old planes (and their engines) for longer.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2026
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But while the Supreme Court has historically been deferential to presidents on immigration issues, defining who is an American by birth is different, according to longtime immigration law scholar Stephen Yale-Loehr.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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At the start of the season, there was a deferential aspect to Jakucionis’ play, including his shooting.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2026
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It’s powered by an AI women’s health platform called Ema, which has already done the hard work to build an accurate, HIPAA-compliant chatbot designed for health care.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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International law and legitimacy concerns aside, Washington had ousted a thorn in its side with Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and replaced him with a more compliant leader.—
Jeffrey Taliaferro,
The Conversation,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Ruly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruly. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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