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But Team Cherry was radio silent.—
Keller Gordon,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025 -
From there, the offense went radio silent.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
16 Aug. 2025
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Brenda Looper joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a news clerk in April 1997, and worked as a feature writer, reviewer and copy editor on the news side before moving to the opinion section in July 2011.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Together, these features make the Advanced Driving Simulation Center a powerful tool.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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And a handful went ahead with a private VIP screening of the First Lady’s documentary at the White House.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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In addition, Free Solo — the 2018 Oscar-winning documentary featuring Honnold’s 3,000-foot free solo climb of the El Capitan summit in the Yosemite National Park in California — is streaming on Netflix and Disney+.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The short doesn’t record her confrontation with a flight attendant and the plane’s captain but rather bystanders’ reactions.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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This short is uniquely brilliant in its ability to balance laugh-out-loud levity with the emotional pain of honest self-reflection.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2026
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In the 19th century, failures were often satirized in cartoons, which may have motivated some elite risk-takers to push on with their attempts past the point of reason rather than face social ridicule.—
Christopher Ferguson,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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On Facebook, Kazmierczak has switched his profile pictures to Trump many times while also uploading cartoons criticizing Democrats’ policies.—
Philip Wang,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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The researchers also observed superconductivity in flexible films made from niobium carbide nanoscrolls.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Jan. 2026
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Common items include notebooks or journals, paperback books or magazines, film cameras and crosswords.—
Avery Newmark,
AJC.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The film is easiest to categorize as a docudrama, though its inventive form, blending real-life audio with dramatized dialogue, doesn’t fit neatly into any one genre (this singular, hybrid approach of Ben Hania’s will be familiar to anyone who has watched Four Daughters).—
Olivia Marks,
Vogue,
16 Dec. 2025
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The actress and filmmaker directed the final episode of his new Fox Nation docudrama series, The Saints.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Dec. 2025
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Olivia Rodrigo went vintage for Halloween this year, opting to dress up as the iconic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2022
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To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
14 June 2022
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“Talkie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talkie. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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