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Adjective
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Audiences Were Never in One Place The shift toward multi-surface creation isn’t just happening on the creator side.—
Stephanie Hind,
Rolling Stone,
1 May 2026 -
Its capabilities include surveillance, intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, and special operations support, alongside traditional anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare roles.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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But such controversies are incidental to the debate over school vaccine mandates.—
Adam W. Gaffney,
STAT,
18 May 2026
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That last detail is not incidental.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Acrasia wears a face crafted by history and time, but Phalene wears a face crafted by Acrasia, who is a significantly less accidental artist than history.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Warranties typically exclude routine maintenance, wear and tear, and accidental damage.—
Charlotte Maracina,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Then, let the paste sit for a few minutes before scrubbing away with a clean cloth to reveal like-new furniture with no superficial scratches.—
Alexandra Kelly,
Martha Stewart,
9 May 2026
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“Adscititious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adscititious. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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