as in to rebel (against)
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The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected a Gary man’s bid last week to cut his sentence for attacking multiple women.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026 -
Like in the case of Adam Hart, who rejected a digital verdict in order to protect a patient’s lungs, the ultimate value of the nurse in the age of AI may be not their ability to follow the prompt but their willingness to override it.—
Hilke Schellmann,
Scientific American,
17 Feb. 2026
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Marty Singer, attorney for the spouses at the time, dismissed the controversy.—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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Yesterday, Judge Aran Subramanian dismissed some portions of the suit but allowed other claims to proceed in the DOJ’s efforts to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
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Prescott, a trial and appellate judge for two decades, shrugged off the concerns.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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Asia-Pacific markets rose Wednesday as investors shrugged off AI fears and China’s weak CPI.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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At one point, ref Michael Oliver takes pleasure in mocking a poor first touch from Conor Gallagher, which the Tottenham midfielder takes in good humour.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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That one of the bartenders in New Orleans reportedly mocked him by referencing Holes to THRfeels like something right out of that movie.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2026
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And as new movie Send Help continues to defy box office expectations, its anti-elite plot deserves some of the credit.—
Alexa Beck,
Fortune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Except there’s nothing boring about the pops and splashes of color, all blood-rich reds and luminous yellows that defy the murky greys that have come to define Hollywood in recent years.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2026
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If Damsky returns to law school, some classmates will treat him as a social pariah who deserves scorn.—
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Like a lot of messy divorces, this started with a wandering eye, a lover scorned and boils down to the money.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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What is the penalty for disobeying a traffic signal?—
Emery Glover,
Des Moines Register,
16 Feb. 2026
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Service members are only required to follow orders that are lawful and have a duty to disobey commands that are patently unlawful, according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
11 Feb. 2026
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The film flouted typical studio strategy as the best picture winner with the earliest release date, and it has been cited as the only horror movie to win the coveted prize.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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AllenCo, the site’s operator since 2009, repeatedly flouted environmental regulations and defied state orders to permanently seal its wells.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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