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as in angers
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
such angry outbursts will rapidly alien any friends you might possibly have left
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as in transfers
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
the couple plans to alien the adjoining house lot to their eldest son
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That angers Oswadeliz Nuñez, whose son Daniel Núñez remains missing after being deported.
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In all, PayPal Park is allowed to host as many as 15 concerts a year, a number that delights some live music fans and angers those in the neighborhood who are concerned about the noise that these shows will generate.
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The budget also transfers control of the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College of Florida, but doesn’t attach money to the plan.
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Using a straw or finger, the consumer transfers a drop of their beverage onto the jewelry’s detection zone.
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Home prices in the nation are falling, making way for potential bargains—but only the wealthiest foreigners can afford to move there.
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The government originally estimated about 500,000 foreigners living in Spain without authorization could benefit, but think tanks and the Spanish police placed the figure closer to a million people.
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Georgia Supreme Court challenger Jen Jordan infuriates Republicans with a new fundraising email.
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To that end, Nate's extravagant wedding infuriates Naz, who thinks Nate has the ability to pay him back but is holding out on him.
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Lean too far toward caution and a firm cedes ground to bolder rivals and to the automation-first newcomers.
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That’s what happens when the hegemon cedes hegemony.
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Enter pitch-a-friend, a live event format where a friend takes the mic with a PowerPoint deck and pitches you to a room of strangers looking for love, friendship or just a night out that does not involve their phone.
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His reporting reminds us of how vast much of our country is, but, more so, of the lovely interactions that happen when strangers share space.
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This baffles and outrages Angela, a protective mom who, with other parents, pushes back against Gabor using her math classroom as a forum for introducing the outside world’s worst actions.
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The content outrages some people and delights others; publishing more of it advances the meta discourse that’s been layered on top of the actual news, drawing attention from the unfolding conflict itself.
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Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.
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An organization that hires for potential and then assigns only narrow, low-risk work has not given potential a chance to prove itself.
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“Aliens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aliens. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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