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What Justice Elena Kagan wrote of so despairingly in those cases resonates anew in Florida.
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O’Farrell’s words skip lightly on some pages, then pace with anxiety, then finally trudge along despairingly.
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Camp Bravo could only watch dejectedly, finally on the beach to witness defeat up close.
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He was joined by Konstantinos Mavropanos and Jarrod Bowen, who clapped dejectedly.
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To its sadly unusual credit, each Enola Holmes film has taken on a different social issue to address, albeit at times rather on the nose-edly.
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The Prince of Wales sadly won’t be attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s wedding Friday in New York City, but the heir to the British throne nonetheless made sure to offer some royal prestige to events.
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Her life remains a poignant reminder that America’s promise of liberty was still painfully incomplete for many who believed in it most.
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But for too many agencies, turning that data into a complete, compliant police report is still painfully manual, time-consuming and prone to error.
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Wilde stars as one half of a struggling couple, unhappily married to a character played by Seth Rogen.
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Elizabeth Banks is Lindy Littlejohn, a seriously frustrated writer, unhappily if tumultuously married to Les (Matthew Macfadyen), a brilliant scientist.
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And yet, the league still seems woefully unprepared for everything that comes with her.
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While America was built to cope with high temperatures, vast areas of Europe remain woefully unprepared.
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With a goalkeeping howler and a red card, Marcelo Bielsa’s side self-imploded at the end of a bitterly disappointing tournament.
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And the organization’s internal splinter groups, the Soviet-leaning Weatherman Underground and the Maoist-leaning Progressive Labor faction fought each other bitterly.
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The concept art and teaser trailer unveiled in 2024 depicted the toys looking on despondently as the child who owns the toys is engrossed in an activity on a tablet.
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Semi-autobiographical in one sense and despondently poetic in the other, The Stranger launched Camus’ career as a major 20th century author.
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“Downheartedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downheartedly. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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