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set pieces

noun

plural of set piece

as in mise-en-scènes

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Having to balance coverage of this unimaginable tragedy with more typical Housewives scenes is a remarkably tricky balancing act, but one that the show handles well.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
Those scenes play as if the screenwriters gave up on trying to resolve the twisty plot, instead just making their characters tell all, leaving the film’s denouement much less engrossing than its setup.

— Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

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To follow their recipe (which, the mathematicians note, is heavily adapted from a 2019 result by Gao and two colleagues), start with two sets of vertices without edges.

— Paulina Rowińska, Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
The 30-piece toy sets include 2-inch figures that contain magnets in the hands and feet, which can be detached and swallowed.

— Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026

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