All colors change under different lights, but white is one of the biggest offenders due to its highly reflective quality.
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Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Oct. 2025
This approach will ensure that this tool is aimed at giving the worst offenders a financial incentive to operate by the same set of rules as the rest of us.
To suggest that another candidate’s supporters are criminals — particularly when that candidate is, by all measures, poised to win at least a plurality of votes in the city — does not seem like a recipe for earning New Yorkers’ support.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Binance also lacked protocols — standard for financial services companies — to report transactions for money laundering risks, according to the Justice Department, and employees were well aware that such an oversight would invite criminals to the platform.
Unlike Vegas with its cast of reprobates and wackos, this joint is classy and clean and just a wee bit indulgent.
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David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
They’re typically retired, sitting on pensions and 401(k)s, and may be naive to the techniques favored by con artists and reprobates who run riot on the internet.
Yet if the Dodgers are to be cast as villains from the Book of Samuel, Toronto brought to the fight far more than pebbles.
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Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
The family moved to Hollywood 10 years later, and Gene Lockhart worked steadily as a character actor, usually in avuncular roles, sometimes as a villain.
Cullen, the federal judge in Charlotte, reduced McClure’s sentence on his guilty plea of possessing a firearm as a felon.
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Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Oct. 2025
Langworthy has been charged with murder, possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon and having an assault weapon later discovered during a search of his home, according to court records.
In Capitol Reef’s considerable backcountry–as in all underfunded national parks and monuments— staffing does not allow for constant patrolling to apprehend and ticket wrongdoers.
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Stephen Trimble,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
Maryland continues to maintain a civil justice system that favors wrongdoers instead of people innocently injured due to negligence.
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