as in to shrug off
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Robust turf growth is often able to shrug off occasional grub pressure, so care well for your lawn by supplying necessary nutrients and water.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2025 -
Miners or environmentalists reported that some investigators seemed to shrug off reports of equipment failure or toxic pollution.—
Laken Brooks,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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New York Senator Julia Salazar, who was among the electeds observing hearings Thursday called for New Yorkers to reject what is happening inside lower Manhattan immigration courts.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2025
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But her boss rejects her resignation, and offers her a new assignment: find Xavier, the mysterious kingpin whose power reaches all the way to the Oval Office.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
4 July 2025
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The Post, like much of New York city’s establishment, was already dismissing Mamdani as too extreme to win in the Democratic mayoral primary.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
30 June 2025
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Social media companies have already gotten several claims dismissed, including a claim of unjust enrichment, Goetz said, because Nazario failed to respond to them.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2025
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In September 2024, she was mocked online after releasing a single.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Tonally, the show is all over the place, laying on the moody theatrics one moment, mocking Dave’s writerly pretenses the next.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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What To Know Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky, defied Trump and joined all Democrats in voting against it.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and state Assembly Member, defied political expectations and beat Cuomo by a 7-point margin in the June 24 democratic primary.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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True to its name, the community for many years served as a target of laughter and scorn.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Kidman, who was 54 at the time, was both praised and scorned for the glaring youthfulness of her skin-baring look.—
Laura Neilson,
Vogue,
30 May 2025
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Thousands of people were arrested by the LAPD and other agencies for failure to disperse, disobeying a lawful order and other minor offenses following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but both the Los Angeles city attorney’s office and former Dist.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2025
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Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district.—
Cheyanne M. Daniels,
The Hill,
9 May 2025
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The administration's lawsuit, filed in Baltimore, argues that the standing order runs afoul of U.S. Supreme Court precedent governing the standards for how courts can issue injunctions and flouts congressional intent.—
Nate Raymond,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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Unfortunately, some states, including California, have continued to flout Bruen’s clear language.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
25 June 2025
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