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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
Noun
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The 2025 Ford Explorer’s welcome new features add function to an already good midsize SUV.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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His killing could become not just a tragedy but a catalyst—an event that radicalizes ever more Americans, less an aberration than a feature of our increasingly perilous national politics.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Apatow is now making a documentary about Brooks, while also developing films about Norm Macdonald and Maria Bamford.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Although Jon Cryer recently appeared in Charlie Sheen‘s documentary, the former onscreen brothers appear to have lost touch off-screen.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 Sep. 2025
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The couple's other projects in development at Netflix include a feature adaptation of Carley Fortune's novel Meet Me at the Lake and a documentary short called Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Clone Wars originally aired in 2003 as a series of shorts on Cartoon Network, employing Tartakovsky’s signature style of angular forms, kinetic action and sparse dialogue.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Aug. 2025
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Barely any other media in recent times has given me an instant shock of glee or revulsion like this absurd anarcho-cartoon being stretched and squeezed to its most grotesque and wholesome clickbait limits.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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Everything from news about a deadly stampede to cartoons that lampoon Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been the subject of removal orders.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, an ex-soldier whose experience was the basis for the film, put viewers through uncannily real and unflinchingly brutal moments.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The master of suspense made almost 70 films and TV shows across his staggering, more-than-half-a-century-long career, graduating from black-and-white, silent British potboilers to full-blown, Technicolor Hollywood blockbusters.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Gaspard Hirschi | France | North American Premiere A docudrama, mockumentary in which the story of Don Quixote comes to life in a contemporary Marseille.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
18 Aug. 2025
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The docudrama also features a man who claims a friend, who is now dead, confessed his involvement to him 40 years ago.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
15 July 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 18 Sep. 2025.
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