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Schwarzenegger made a pilgrimage to Washington to cadge more money from the government, but came home empty-handed.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2025 -
Ansa works in a Helsinki supermarket, collecting expired food and cadging the odd casserole for her dinner.—
Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
4 Dec. 2023
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On top of that, Nico is also, quite obviously, just mooching off/clinging to Mindy because he got cut off by his family.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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The Netflix rep says there is no correlation between this change and people mooching off other people's accounts.—
Boone Ashworth,
Wired News,
1 Dec. 2025
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First there was Norwegian’s Sturla Holm Lægreid confessing to cheating on his girlfriend during a live interview after winning the bronze medal and tearfully begging her to come back (shockingly, humiliating his ex on national television didn’t work).—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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The current crop, by contrast, has been begging visitors to crawl back into the light.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
11 Feb. 2026
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After an agonizing two and a half weeks of waiting, of back and forth, of praying, at the very last minute the judge finally gave her ruling in favor of TPS for Haiti.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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The day after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home under the cover of night, her daughter, Savannah, made a heartbreaking appeal to pray for her mother.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Soak the racks for four hours to overnight, then scrub with a brush or sponge to remove grime.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2026
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In the collision of spice, sharpness and seedy crunch, and in the sponging way potatoes soak up butter, the intensity never seems like too much.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Celia unites the very best artisans and designers, handpicked by Luhrmann and Martin, to conjure a world of storied theatre across a carriage that draws on the British landscape, theatre, and literary legends.—
Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
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The Assistant was Anthropic’s attempt to conjure from the base model an agreeable little customer-service representative in a bow tie.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Following Pretti’s death on January 24, scores of protesters have taken to the streets, armed with cell phones and bright orange whistles, as local officials implore Minnesotans to continue documenting ICE operations.—
Sophia Peyser,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
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With his stick stuck in his pads, Swayman took off his mask and implored Vasilevskiy to do the same.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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As Clare Malone reported for The New Yorker, Woodward beseeched Bezos to intercede.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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As Trump sent thousands of troops and elite military ships to the region in the lead-up to the Jan. 3 raid, Machado beseeched him to intervene in her country and topple Maduro.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Bludge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bludge. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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