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In fact, this French Quarter institution helped invent modern brunch (thank you, butcher’s breakfast) and introduced cocktail classics like the Grasshopper and Whiskey Punch to the American bar lexicon.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025 -
Reese tried that one, too, but butchered it when his lean came well into the end zone.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2025
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In an industry throttled by changing demands and pressures, making small tweaks won’t prevent the worst risks of grid instability over the next 10 years.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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Gophers 7, Eagles 1 The Gophers opened the season in fine form by throttling visiting Boston College 7-1 Thursday night.—
Theodore Tollefson,
Twin Cities,
25 Sep. 2025
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Denim has long been branded one of the most climate-adverse, chemical-heavy, water-wasting fabrics to mill and manufacture.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Lynx held their season-ending media access on Tuesday, and Napheesa Collier wasted little time in getting things off her chest.—
John Shipley,
Twin Cities,
30 Sep. 2025
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Previous unbeatens Florida State and USC — favorites — choked on the road.—
Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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In the afterglow of her magnificent album, choke enough, and the birth of her first child, Marylou Mayniel decamps to the southwest of France.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
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To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Having finished the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado and California’s Sierra Range — including Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the Lower 48 states at 14,500 feet — the next stop for the renowned Spanish endurance athlete is Mount Shasta in northern California, near the Oregon border.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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That means the Senate's only practical effect is adding another point at which oligarch lobbyists can garrote popular policy.—
Ryan Cooper,
The Week,
29 Oct. 2021
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Tony, unhindered by any sense of moral anguish, garrotes the man in broad daylight with a length of cable.—
Adam Wilson,
Harper's magazine,
16 Sep. 2019
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Why these four girls were murdered is still unclear.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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Here was an artist, a father, murdering someone with a viciousness that went beyond self-preservation.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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According to the lawsuit, her suicidal thoughts escalated in June 2023 after another patient attempted to strangle herself and staff failed to intervene, even as the unnamed patient turned blue.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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Scott was convicted of participating in the 1981 murder of Larry Miner, who was tied up, beaten, strangled and stabbed.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Scrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrag. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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