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If your idea of patience looks like being endlessly agreeable, never getting annoyed, and staying calm through any inconvenience….—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
17 June 2025 -
We get used to it quickly, and will be annoyed when it is replaced.—
Roger Dooley,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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Pachuca’s failure plagued Salzburg as well, with the Austrian side needing a boost after things turned for the worse against Real Madrid, only to be denied – despite their social media admin’s best pleas.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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The last few projects have been plagued by delays and massive cost overruns.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2025
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In January, Native Americans alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were harassing tribal members.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Federal authorities have called Iran the world's largest state sponsor of terror, and the FBI says the Iranian government has both imprisoned Americans within its territory on unsubstantiated charges and harassed and even killed dissidents in exile.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
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As half-time approached with the match still goalless, Salzburg dropped into a more compact shape, baiting Pachuca’s defenders to carry the ball forward or try line-breaking passes into their midfielders.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Its ideal participant emerges as the antithesis of the troll, whose preferred genres of speech—railing, jeering, baiting—would have been familiar to any late-seventeenth-century reader.—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Say your mother kept bugging you to change a bad habit.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Next season is when all the little things start to bug me.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
21 Mar. 2025
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The 35-time Grammy Award winner rides on a red prop car over the audience during the song, but halfway through the track, the car stopped and tilted, prompting her to pause the show.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Disney World workers have been experiencing previews for a few days, and annual passholders will have ride opportunities during the week of July 13 using a virtual queue system.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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Powell’s term as Fed chief ends in May 2026 and Trump has made no secret of his desire to replace him, badgering him repeatedly on social media and in interviews.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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There was no begging or badgering for billions in public funds.—
David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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In December, the libertarian Cato Institute published an article urging Trump to privatize the system.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
27 June 2025
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Then comes a video of Sam Smith as a toddler being urged to kick a ball in the hallway of the family home, followed straight after by the striker’s acrobatic finish to put Wrexham 2-0 up just three minutes on from Rathbone’s opener.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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“Yap (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yap%20%28at%29. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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