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Adjective
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Nyong’o also plays Clytemnestra, the unfaithful wife of Agamemnon, whom Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, murder.
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In Strangers on a Train, Rogers played Guy's unfaithful wife, whom Bruno offers to kill.
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Oprah Winfrey said that Whitney Houston fell off her talk show stage after relapsing on drugs.
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After relapsing during the third season of Queer Eye in 2018, Brown got sober from drugs and alcohol again a year and a half ago after a scary wake-up call.
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Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
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The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
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Or to some shaky American accents that keep lapsing.
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The move comes as the partial shutdown enters its sixth week, with funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsing in mid-February.
Adjective
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Critics also have challenged the report’s characterization of cases involving women, contending these were consensual affairs that were sinful but not abusive.
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Naim and his overly anxious single mom (Mia Wasikowska) attend rote church services in which the pastor looks to exorcise the LGBTQ+ from sinful boys who like boys and girls who like girls.
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While the Colombia of 2026 is nowhere near as deadly as the Colombia of the 1990s, when the FARC was ruling over swaths of the country, the South American nation is nevertheless regressing in terms of security.
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This shifts hair follicles from regressing into active growth.
Adjective
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Cricket, a reserved but gifted artist, and Olympia, a slightly older, worldly art connoisseur.
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All three vicars show a passion not just for ministering to their flock but for helping Geordie solve an unending series of murders and crimes of passion in the sleepy village of Grantchester and the worldly nearby city of Cambridge.
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At least Mercedes is reverting back to screwing things together rather than gluing things in a back-to-basics manufacturing push.
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The state is reverting some districts to older lines that are more favorable to Republicans.
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“Backsliding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backsliding. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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