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Temirov was unlawfully deported to Moscow in 2022 in retaliation for his investigative reporting on high-level corruption in the Kyrgyz government, according to Sorensen.—
Ray Long,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Many Iranians wonder why their government spends so much money and effort on picking fights with Israel, the United States, and their allies, rather than on fixing its own corruption.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Trump has been tied to Epstein, and though there is no evidence exposing the president’s participation in Epstein’s acts of degeneracy, the question remains on the minds of many Americans — Was Trump complicit?—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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Spaces that seem most interested in the permissiveness of perversion.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
25 June 2025
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Stern, who is 71, first signed with Sirius in 2004 (prior to its merger with XM), in part to be free of oversight by the FCC, which had levied millions of dollars in fines on terrestrial radio stations that carried his show for alleged indecency.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Howard is still facing four charges that stemmed from the investigation, including one count of official misconduct, making an unlawful proposition, public indecency and public nudity.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Exposure to warm, humid air and bugs in the outdoors will speed up the decay even more.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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The quest has led us down many theoretically interesting avenues, spawning ideas like extra dimensions, supersymmetry, proton decay, string theory, and many others.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The cottage retains its utopian squalor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Gazans have lived in squalor for generations.—
Jeff Robbins,
Oc Register,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2022
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A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions.—
Orange County Register,
Orange County Register,
1 Apr. 2017
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As Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of murder and depravity builds to its climax, the film’s ostensible hero, tennis professional Guy Haines (Farley Granger), needs to get out ahead of the psychopath (Robert Walker) who means to frame him for a murder.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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Ireland showed its longstanding, if well-earned, animus toward Britain by choosing to be neutral during the Second World War—despite the depravity of Nazism.—
Philip Metres
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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