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Recent Examples of unelaborateHow can something so unelaborate as Sole Meuniere with Lemon and Browned Butter be such a rave?—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
To the left of the entryway is the kitchen, the only undecorated room, which nonetheless includes a lineup of Titanic board games and a blowup Titanic bath toy.
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Laura Bannister,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
Courtesy Mya Mendola Nevertheless, transformation videos are all over TikTok, showing drab, undecorated freshman dorms elevated into luxurious oases.
LookbookStore Knit Faux Wrap Sweater Sweaters can sometimes look a bit plain and one note, but this one has stylish accents that elevate it above the standard crew-neck and turtleneck styles you may be used to.
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Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
8 Oct. 2025
The oversized fit, textured knit, and those beautiful autumn-perfect shades take this crewneck from a plain one no one would bat an eye at to something that really gives an oomph to the outfit.
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Nusrat Sultana,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Oct. 2025
Strufe adds that while intelligence agencies or cybercriminals have simpler ways to monitor people – such as accessing CCTV cameras or video doorbells – the widespread presence of wireless networks could eventually form a near-comprehensive surveillance infrastructure.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Oct. 2025
The simplest way to find influential people in a network is called degree centrality—just count the number of connections for each person.
The kitchen—small, unfancy, pleasant—has a window with a sight line to the Duomo: by conventional measures the best view in the apartment, but somehow, in this setting, a private decadence.
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Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
23 Aug. 2022
The writing was elegant but direct, decidedly unfancy, and always infused by Gurza’s encyclopedic knowledge of music and passion for social justice, community and family.
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