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The polarizing organization trudged through a corruption trial and attempted to file for bankruptcy in the past decade.—
Stephen Gutowski,
Washington Post,
16 June 2026 -
But there is a growing protest movement against the project, which is on public land and many Albanians view it as government corruption.—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
16 June 2026
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The team found that a near-infrared resolving power of at least 40 is the minimum needed to break that degeneracy.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
10 June 2026
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Some lambasted the degeneracy of the modern language.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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The Fair Districts law is a partisan perversion walking around in a phony non-partisan trenchcoat.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Egypt has arrested and prosecuted gays and lesbians on the basis of vague indecency laws and has cracked down on any outward expressions of Pride, especially the waving of rainbow flags.—
Andrew Destin,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
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On this day in 1895, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency for his homosexual relationships—a crime in Victorian England.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 May 2026
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The decay rate will increase as the spacecraft dips into denser layers of the atmosphere until Swift finally burns up during reentry.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
19 June 2026
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The Dirty Beaches founder’s own saxophone and trumpet lead the players’ cut-and-pasted recordings down dark alleys of decay and introspection, backdropped by percussive bangs and scrapes that suggest the construction of some great, mysterious superstructure.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
19 June 2026
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Reform and Restore are no doubt relying on support from pockets of deprivation, squalor and neglect in Makerfield.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
18 June 2026
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Authorities say all of the animals were found living in squalor.—
Grace Bellinghausen,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2026
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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Bardem is captivating and formidable, grinning with maniacal glee at his every act of depravity and the fear and anguish of his victims.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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The absurd part is that corruption and depravity are not crimes, and neither are adultery and masturbation.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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