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Whether building a new recipe around apple brandy or swapping a classic cocktail’s traditional spirit out for apple brandy, its baking spice and cedar notes mesh impeccably well with so many other ingredients to seamlessly add fall layers to a drink.—
Jillian Dara,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025 -
And the offensive operation looked much smoother, as Payton meshed the Colts to death and befuddled their defense on a second-quarter touchdown in which tight end Adam Trautman split out wide.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
15 Sep. 2025
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In addition to the standalone episodic plots, Hotel Costiera has a season-long arc in which Daniel and his crew attempt to track down Augusto’s somewhat rebellious younger daughter Alice (Amanda Campana), who may have been abducted, but may actually just be … someplace else.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
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But Francisco followed them there and abducted the teen a second time, according to prosecutors.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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But there’s also no one to see if someone kidnaps you, which does happen to a girl at one point in the book.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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While the plots are similar— an ex-revolutionary is forced back into action after his daughter is kidnapped by a former nemesis— the film lands as a much more straightforward action movie, following relatively conventional story beats.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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As summer gives way to fall—cooler nights, busier days—there are more opportunities to be present, to be deliberate, to be enmeshed in the dailiness of one’s life.—
Julia Hass,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Canadian economy, for instance, is enmeshed with that of the United States: Canada does about two-thirds of all its international trade with its southern neighbor.—
Phillips P. O’Brien,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Sep. 2025
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Hatt was ejected from the truck, and Winkler was entrapped.—
Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Aug. 2025
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That total lack of self-awareness and disregard for consequences fed right into Epstein’s warped way of entrapping others.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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