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The soft, willowy branches bear red flower spikes on the tips in warm months.
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Shredded vegetables — carrot, ginger, papaya, shallot and cucumber, some pickled and some fresh — are arranged, per the original name, over top in willowy repose.
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Just snip away dead, damaged, or diseased branches to keep these shrubs looking trim.
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Both looks are in the same color, both have white trim, and even has similar pocket details.
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Nick Boyd, guard, 6-1, Wisconsin A wiry guard who, like Saunders above, is already 25 years old, Boyd’s stat profile doesn’t jump off the page.
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Those themes are compelling on paper, but they’re expressed through a confusing mix of abstraction and hyper-local specificity, hidden beneath biker rock riffs, and obscured through Allbrook’s wiry, wailing vocal delivery.
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And who can say for sure whether twilight is the arrival of some dark night or the coming of the dawn, or whether a scrawny boy’s shoulder blades might really be the nubs of angel wings, or where, if anywhere, any of us will find new life.
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In a Broadway season notable for the strength of its musical revivals, there has been some concern that the best new musical Tony Award category might be particularly scrawny this year.
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“Sylphlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sylphlike. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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