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Price hikes are almost always unpopular, but unveiling them immediately after offending subscribers, employees, politicians, and celebrities is tone-deaf and horribly timed.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025 -
Matthew Perry shared this behind-the-scenes pic of him and former onscreen wife Courteney Cox hanging out while filming an episode of Perry's own comedy series Go On, in which the two go on (another) date that goes horribly wrong — Grand Theft Auto-style.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
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While this does not sound terribly steep, this was in Earth's gravity — in the lower gravity of Mars, this would be equivalent to a 30 degree slope.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Continue reading … SINKING FEELING – Woman's attempt to protest ICE arrest in Massachusetts goes terribly wrong.—
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FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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On the flip side, 2-1 with a road win over the Chargers would look awfully good.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
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Quality like this is awfully hard to come by.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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But the report shows that students across every political and ideological subgroup are alarmingly at ease with not only violence, but also the other, less extreme means of silencing opposing views.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
16 Sep. 2025
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Regardless of the potential upside, new product launches still experience alarmingly high rates of failure, with research suggesting failure rates closer to 40%.—
Esade Business & Law School,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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What this administration — and perhaps more disturbingly, this Federal Communications Commission — has done is to overturn the principle that the FCC’s job was to manage the airwaves, not to manage ideas.—
John Eger,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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McDermott skillfully deploys Valley Girl upspeak to ends both disturbingly perky and just straight disturbing.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
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The agency had earlier said two detainees were killed and one was badly hurt.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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When Jennifer’s Body was first released, the film was badly mismarketed to teenage boys in an attempt to capitalize on Megan Fox’s popularity with the demographic.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
23 Sep. 2025
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