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Taiwan’s parties, in other words, portray their opponents not just as politically different but as autocratic traitors.—
LEV NACHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Aug. 2025 -
Foundation is worried about the traitors, the Empire is worried about the Galactic Council, the Emperor is worried about the other emperors and the robot.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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Lil Wayne helped Drake begin his music career nearly two decades ago, and the two have been great friends and frequent collaborators ever since.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Jason Michael Webb is the production’s music supervisor, and Prince collaborators Bobby Z and Morris Hayes have been given roles as Prince music advisers.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
13 Aug. 2025
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The Sun have played one regular-season game in Boston’s TD Garden in each of the past two seasons, with both being sellouts.—
Sabreena Merchant,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2025
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In January, the company made its debut on QVC and had a million-dollar sellout within 24 hours.—
Maggie McGrath,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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The inspiration for this exercise was a search for the most prominent turncoats in college football history.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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The turncoats are John Hannah, Biggie Munn, Bo Schembechler and Burt Smith.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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Given her close association with Epstein and ties to influential figures, prosecutors could find any information that helps uncover additional victims, accomplices, or conspirators to be of great value.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
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Last summer, the Pentagon’s director of the Office of Military Commissions agreed to a plea deal with KSM and two other 9/11 conspirators locked up in Gitmo, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, that would rule out the death penalty for these most guilty of prisoners.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 July 2025
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His death was met with an outpouring of tributes from icons across music and entertainment, including Elton John, Metallica, Billy Idol and Judas Priest, among others.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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People everywhere had tears streaming right along with Erivo’s. Lambert, meanwhile, reveled in Judas’s arc from swagger to ruin, balancing streetwise regret with near-mythic torment.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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“Subverter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subverter. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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