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as in asks
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With Richie in Kiko's crosshairs and the clock ticking, Conrad asks his wife, Maeve (Helen Mirren), to make the decision.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
30 Mar. 2025 -
Neptune entering Aries asks you to surrender an outdated ego.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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Oliveira’s father was a wealthy industrialist, and a view from the old house’s perspective invokes the comforts that his family’s prosperity afforded, and, with these, the inner vistas, the aesthetic initiation that opened up to him in his urbane youth.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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Still, although Lund isn’t going for any major tear-jerking moments, his movie invokes the melancholy sense of something important passing into the mists.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Jackson tries to see 15 to 20 people at each facility during her monthly visits.—
Jess Huff,
Austin American-Statesman,
27 Dec. 2024
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Though timid Player 125 Min-su (Lee David) tries to help her, Se-mi is killed by Player 124 Nam-gyu (Roh Jae-won).—
Kayti Burt,
TIME,
26 Dec. 2024
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The complaint cites a 2008 article by The Times about an anti-CNN protest in which Chen is quoted and described as an organizer and a patio furniture manufacturer living in Diamond Bar.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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The Columbus Police Department cites naloxone as a prime factor behind a decline in 911 calls for overdose emergencies here.—
Maurice Tamman,
USA TODAY,
22 Dec. 2024
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The source who spoke with PEOPLE insists that the dispute stems from governance concerns, not personal grievances.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Ali insists the country can balance climate leadership and fossil fuel exploitation.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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The incarcerated penguin thief finds a way to reprogram Wallace's robotic garden gnome and send it on a crime spree that implicates the oddball inventor.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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The trial also implicates 11 other defendants, including former ministers and intermediaries accused of facilitating illicit financial transactions.—
Natalie Venegas,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Sues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sues. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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