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From there, audiences are thrust back to France in 1889, where Dracula sets about the arduous task of carving out a special niche in overly tired literary adaptation history.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Feb. 2026
After the cowboys’ home had yellowed to memory, illustrators such as Frederic Remington set about romanticizing the Westerner, a process vigorously seized upon by the chieftains of Hollywood.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
Crick and other key figures, such as Professor Jonathan Michie, former Saatchi & Saatchi marketing executive Richard Hytner, journalist Jim White, members of Independent Manchester United Supporters’ Association (IMUSA) and others set about blocking the move.
—Chris McKenna, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
But Jávea, set about 25 miles north of the Costa Blanca, where the coastline’s long, sandy beaches give way to craggy bays and vertiginous cliffs, did it differently.
—Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Abramovich then opened new businesses in Anadyr and set about spending more of his own money on bettering the lives of local residents.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
So Cox set about to change that.
—Meg Anderson, NPR, 18 Jan. 2026
System Technology Co-optimization The Imec team set about trying a number of technology and system optimizations aimed at lowering the temperature.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2026
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Feb. 2026
After the cowboys’ home had yellowed to memory, illustrators such as Frederic Remington set about romanticizing the Westerner, a process vigorously seized upon by the chieftains of Hollywood.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
Crick and other key figures, such as Professor Jonathan Michie, former Saatchi & Saatchi marketing executive Richard Hytner, journalist Jim White, members of Independent Manchester United Supporters’ Association (IMUSA) and others set about blocking the move.
—Chris McKenna, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
But Jávea, set about 25 miles north of the Costa Blanca, where the coastline’s long, sandy beaches give way to craggy bays and vertiginous cliffs, did it differently.
—Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Abramovich then opened new businesses in Anadyr and set about spending more of his own money on bettering the lives of local residents.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
So Cox set about to change that.
—Meg Anderson, NPR, 18 Jan. 2026
System Technology Co-optimization The Imec team set about trying a number of technology and system optimizations aimed at lowering the temperature.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2026
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“Set about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set%20about. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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