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Verb
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Vidal covers this briskly but omits the surreal postlude in which Hearst had the young woman dressed like a princess in a long white gown and paraded her through New York City to a rally at Madison Square Garden before a reception with President McKinley at the White House.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026 -
New York City — The large man was dressed in a suit in unseasonably sticky 90-degree weather.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
20 May 2026
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Dishes that are stacked too closely together, are nested (think bowls and spoons), or blocked by larger items may not be fully cleaned and rinsed.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 May 2026
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The script, credited to new collaborator Simon Lyashenko and Zvyagintsev and adapted freely from Chabrol’s 1969 thriller, wastes nothing, not even a throwaway comment at a restaurant dinner that Gleb and Galina attend about the last time Gleb cleaned his own house.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
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In a matter of weeks, many companies had eviscerated their DEI programs.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Starring Ice Cube, Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg, director Rich Lee’s movie was critically eviscerated and currently holds a meager 4 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Florida recently disemboweled college-level sociology textbooks.—
Megan Thiele Strong,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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It can be copied, replayed, leaked, modeled or eventually extracted.—
Pravir Malik,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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It was extracted in central Africa in the 1990s, and in its uncut state weighed nearly 12 carats.—
Leigh Anne Miller,
ARTnews.com,
15 May 2026
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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