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The Pitt’s 15-episode season, simple premise, empathetic performances, and weekly release schedule, combined with a focus on ruthlessly realistic competence, erects a new benchmark for what good TV looks like in the streaming era.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025 -
Bijol, whose pace was so ruthlessly exposed at Brighton & Hove Albion and Nottingham Forest, was protected by Pascal Struijk and Rodon, but had the physicality to battle with Erling Haaland and clear high balls into the box.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
30 Nov. 2025
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The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Chris Brander, who returns to his hometown in the prime of his life after being bullied mercilessly throughout high school.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
10 Dec. 2025
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Gossip Girl centered around a group of wealthy high school students who are being terrorized by a mysterious and vicious blogger (who was voiced by Kristen Bell) who mercilessly spills all of their secrets.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Nov. 2025
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Things are tough all over everywhere, especially in societies that sell the discreet charms of the bourgeoisie as the dream life, then simply shrug when such comforts are pitilessly snatched away.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2025
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The first hour, set at a resort that’s like a singles cruise through the Twilight Zone (or Bachelor in Paradise beamed in from a brutal alternate universe), contains some of the most pitilessly funny scenes of the filmmaker’s career.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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After decades of obdurately refusing to entertain the idea of bestowing its computers with touch screens, rumor has it that Apple might finally offer this capability.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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During the operation, Mexicans were inhumanely crammed into buses, trains, planes, and cargo ships for deportation back to Mexico.—
Cara A. Kinnally,
Time,
15 June 2026
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Building Alligator Alcatraz and being proud of treating people inhumanely while at the same time stealing money for his charity is disgusting.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
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Hutton blames callously materialistic white settlers for destroying both the environment and rival civilizations.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Nov. 2025
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance comes at a time when the government has antagonized Latino communities, spread anti-Latino rhetoric, and treated immigrants with abject cruelty, callously celebrating images of forceful, often violent arrests and brutal detainments.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
19 Oct. 2025
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During the summer, those wards, with high cathedral ceilings and large windows that did not open, would become oppressively hot.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 2025
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On a misty, oppressively hot early July morning, the campus was mostly quiet, save for a small number of prospective students touring the university and people passing through the urban Philadelphia campus.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
3 July 2025
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In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Tyrannically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tyrannically. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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