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Although the discussion of representation can be tiresome for many who just want to be seen for their talent, Cho gets it.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025 -
How tiresome monogamy, married or otherwise, always seemed to her.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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Courtesy of Paws for Patrick Since some children can’t have animals in their home due to allergies or other considerations, the nonprofit also sends therapy dog teams into schools during finals and other stressful times to reach more students.—
Jen Reeder,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This is a stressful place in stressful times.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
17 Sep. 2025
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Either way, a wrist injury would help explain the rather troubling start for Thomas, who was profiled to be one of the best wide receivers in all of football coming into the 2025 season.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Regardless of which direction the program goes at Head Coach, or if Iamaleava will stay for his junior season, the fact that UCLA is already looking towards next year in Week 3 is troubling enough.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Ponder the grocery categories tracked by local CPIs to see which California supermarket aisles are most troublesome to your household’s food budget.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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For Wild fans, one more potentially troublesome factor iis the history of moves like that one.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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In other words, the more painful the cry sounded, the warmer the listener's face became—and the effect was the same for both men and women.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Queen could have surgery to remove bunions, but has been warned against it as the surgery is too painful.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
16 Sep. 2025
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Equally worrisome, cyberattacks targeting smart city infrastructure surged by 50% in a single year, including incidents that disrupted traffic control, public safety, and essential utilities DeepStrike+1.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Memory loss isn't always worrisome.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Low, who has been in regular contact with NRC colleagues on the ground — most of them local staff — said civilians are being forced into impossible decisions as the offensive intensifies.—
Kaity Kline,
NPR,
18 Sep. 2025
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Cal’s offensive staff includes two former Mountain West head coaches.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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And yet, despite being an Oscar-hopeful crowd-pleaser rather than a horror movie, The Green Mile features some of the most upsetting imagery and themes in any King adaptation.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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This disastrously cramped conception of who gets to have a day in court would be the main target of my outrage if the court’s opinion on the use of ethnicity, language and workplace as factors in immigration enforcement weren’t even more upsetting.—
Noah Feldman,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Distractive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distractive. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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