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As security officer of the Maginot, Morrow abandons his post to kill the traitor — allowing the ship to continue its collision course into Earth.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo, who has been actively lobbying against Brazil in Washington, have both been branded as traitors by Lula supporters.—
HUSSEIN KALOUT,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Sep. 2025
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Her interview for the inaugural issue was done by George Clooney, her longtime friend and collaborator.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The comedy was written by Rogen, Judd Apatow, and Rogen's longtime collaborator, Evan Goldberg.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Other sellouts for the week were Hadestown, Hamilton, John Proctor Is the Villain, Just In Time, Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mincemeat, The Outsiders, Wicked and Oh, Mary!—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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Videos and still photos showed Sergio Busquets throwing a punch, Luis Suarez spitting on a Sounders security official, and several other Miami players pushing, shoving, and grabbing Sounders players after the match, which drew a sellout crowd of 69,314 at Lumen Field in Seattle.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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President Abraham Lincoln called on state militias at the outset of the Civil War to help in fighting Confederate turncoats to the South.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
21 Aug. 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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You might be rightfully distressed that the AI has opted to serve as a co-conspirator in the crafting and extension of the delusional thinking.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Next, the victims were directed to contact Indian call centers, where alleged co-conspirators would use social engineering techniques to build trust.—
Alex Riggins,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
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Halford said the day after Osbourne’s death, Judas Priest was booked to play a show.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
20 Aug. 2025
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Due to a scheduling conflict, Judas Priest was unable to perform at Sabbath's Back to the Beginning charity concert last month.—
Emlyn Travis Published,
EW.com,
20 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 9 Sep. 2025.
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