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Noun
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Adjusted operating income, which adds back depreciation, amortization and impairment charges, was -$801,000 (Sphere) and $33.7 million (MSG Networks).—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
3 Mar. 2025 -
Operating income of $3.3 million vs $3.5 million for the same period of fiscal 2023, hit by $6.4 million of noncash impairment charges.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
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The parks department said the changes, which were announced earlier this year, would open more of the park to those with disabilities and the trails would provide a way to move between the Illinois and Olive avenues’ parking lots closer to the river.—
Emma Hall,
Sacramento Bee,
1 Mar. 2025
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In 1986—seven years after Oberon’s death—the Actors’ Equity Association established the Nontraditional Casting Project, an endeavor meant to widen roles for actors of color as well as those with disabilities.—
Mayukh Sen,
The Atlantic,
1 Mar. 2025
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Does the actor looking older than her 21 years (a notion that is, of course, entirely subjective) infer some kind of moral failing?—
Morgan Fargo,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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The study framed their feelings as internal failings rather than responses to external pressures, such as patriarchy and white supremacy, which drive perfectionism.—
Shari Dunn,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
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Countless emergency room visits, unexplained symptoms, body weakness, and pain became my new normal.—
Essence,
Essence,
5 Mar. 2025
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Vitamin A toxicity can cause vomiting, nausea, blurry vision, muscle weakness, liver damage and potential brain damage.—
Neha Mukherjee,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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Snow, standing at a more common 6-2, didn’t shy away from telling Eldridge that his height can be a detriment in some areas.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Starting with your celestial ruler, Venus, entering Aries on Feb. 4 — a sign where the love planet is in detriment — its journey through your introspective 12th house forces you to face emotional baggage and unconscious relationship patterns holding you back.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Authorities blamed the unrest on armed remnants of the Assad government, but acknowledged that some of the civilian killings were the fault of undisciplined factions or individual actors.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas Jr. told the Washington Examiner that Biden was at fault for the recent increase in immigrants in his town.—
Anna Giaritelli,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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