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The lining mimics sheep wool while the thick denim creates a windproof barrier that’s helpful for windy fall and winter days.—
Christopher Murray
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Arvind presented Eroded, a collection that mimics the effects of overdyeing.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Oct. 2025
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After the relationship between Swift and Kelce went public, Pomeroy made a video parodying a day in her life, hearing her name around Kansas City.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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As Buffy, Shannon Elizabeth parodied the girl-next-door archetype, eventually proving to be not so innocent behind the scenes.—
Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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During the subsequent century, filmmakers returned to this reflexive mode of cinema for a variety of reasons, either to examine their artistic process, explore formal innovations, expose some horrible secret, or, perhaps most often, satirize the ivory-tower industry itself.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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In the spirit of art imitating life, the episode calls attention to the proliferation of potentially toxic chemicals in the products many of us slather daily on our face, body and hair.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025
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This provides my son with an opportunity to imitate me verbally and gesturally.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
20 Oct. 2025
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug smuggling hub despite having some of the strictest drug laws in the world, in part because international drug syndicates target its young population.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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Republicans are hoping to target New Hampshire next year, and some view Sununu as a strong candidate to compete in a state that has generally leaned Democratic in the most recent federal elections.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.—
Zephyr Teachout,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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These projects are often caricatured, but their strategic logic is clear: build new clusters, catalyze supply chains and skills, and crowd in private capital.—
Ali Shihabi,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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Critics accused him of aping Farage’s rhetoric and warned that Labour could lose votes to the left in trying to court the right.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Ryback shows the younger man's relaxation-as-growth around impressive set pieces, including a segment of aping famed concert pianists Alfred Brendel and Glenn Gould as well as Hoffman's blistering rant after a visit to Dachau.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Bonaparte used the tools of government to harass Jacobins and curb dissent—a disaster for civil society.—
Time,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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Google’s powerful and freely available AI models have helped fuel the rise of AI content, some of which is aimed at spreading misinformation and harassing individuals.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Take off (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take%20off%20%28on%29. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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