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Brown then tried to ride the anti-tax, spending-limit movement into the White House two years later — but failed miserably.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026 -
But the presence of these compounds in grapes failed miserably as a diagnostic for smoke taint.—
Nicola Twilley,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Eventually an analyst was hired to work alongside her, which still left the department grossly understaffed.—
Vanity Fair,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
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In fact, at 7,000 rooms, the county might be grossly unprepared to meet the county’s hospital demand of, say, 2030.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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There are significant worries that AI can readily go off the rails or otherwise dispense unsuitable or even egregiously inappropriate mental health advice.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Trump, of course, was rude, untruthful, and excessively, if not quite so egregiously, long-winded in his first term, too.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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But tackling the Navier-Stokes equations for fluids in three dimensions is unspeakably difficult, so mathematicians have started with easier versions of the problem.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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The trade price for Young was unspeakably low.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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There’s nothing worse than generating a report with AI and then going confidently into a meeting, only to encounter an awkwardly embarrassing situation where the data is flagrantly incorrect, missing, or misleading, or too obviously AI.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The film, an official selection at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, is yet another innovative step forward by Sister Nancy on behalf of all women in dancehall, a physical space and musical genre that can be flagrantly misogynistic.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
20 Oct. 2025
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These rules would otherwise allow other countries to impose top-up taxes when profits are insufficiently taxed.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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That usually happens when an actor appears overly controlled or insufficiently guided—either sealed tight or unhinged.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Shoddily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoddily. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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