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Preliminary *guess* is #gasprices could rise 35-95c/gal on the West coast.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025 -
Each section of the famed hall had its handful of guys wearing snappy button Western shirts and gals wearing loud cowboy hats, like goths sporting black mascara at a My Chemical Romance Halloween gig.—
Adam Gold,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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First, Donald asks his old pal Chubs to get rid of his mistress, Betty Jo; in exchange, Marty can head up Donald’s gubernatorial security detail.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Between the running and reading is the music, the ever-present mistress in his life and the only thing that's been around longer than his beloved wife.—
Otto Rabe,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
24 Sep. 2025
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The Intruder by Freida McFadden When a hurricane bears down on her remote cabin, Casey discovers a bloodied, knife-wielding girl outside her window and reluctantly lets her in.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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Poe transplanted the story to Paris, changed Mary’s name to Marie Rogêt and recast her as a perfume shop worker instead of a cigar girl.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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The hotel is made entirely out of ice and snow, and drinks are served out of ice lasses.—
Jason Mastrodonato,
Mercury News,
24 Aug. 2025
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The owner of the brothel promised to find the brunette Englishwoman Henry’s been looking for, and the lass has been found!—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Surveillance footage showed Brown carrying the sleeping boy from his bedroom hours before he was found in a pool of blood, WFAA reported, citing Dallas police.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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It was given to a total of 2,249 baby boys in 2024, per the SSA.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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There’s Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, of course, but also Joe and his girlfriend, Rosa; Sam and the secretly gay matinee idol Tracy; Sam and Rosa; and Joe and his sister, Sarah (a brother in the book).—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
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Sebastian’s inamorata, Ellie (Leslie Bibb), is the only daughter of hotel magnate William Collins XII (David Rasche) and his US senator wife, Tigger (Kim Cattrall); and, yes, Tigger is her government name.—
Odie Henderson,
BostonGlobe.com,
24 May 2023
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The idyllic scenery also represents the happy ending that Yadra’s lesbian daughter, Zelia, wants to imagine about what happened to her great aunt Nena, who chose to stay behind in Cuba to be with her married inamorata, Antonia.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Nov. 2021
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Last year’s The Tortured Poets Department, which recounted Swift’s breakups with rocker beau Matty Healy and actor/co-writer Joe Alwyn, bristled at expectations and disappeared into fantasy.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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Her beau and companion was asleep on his board in the middle of the lagoon.—
NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Tootsie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tootsie. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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