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Adverb
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When the little doggy pool doesn't float, their plan fails miserably, and both Mabel and her sister Millie are left having to rethink their strategy.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025 -
The only good thing is that the Dodgers have been failing miserably and somehow the Pads remain in contention.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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The setpiece is brutally gruesome, darkly comic, and viscerally ambitious.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Distressfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distressfully. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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