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Noun
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Warm water may push adult crabs deeper as well.—
Bill Kearney,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025 -
Who’s going to climb over all the other crabs and inevitably kill them in order to survive?—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These radicals are specifically based on an organosulfur compound called tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) units.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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The radicals on the left are the problem.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Put the kibosh on quiet cracking, those cynics insist.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Travis Kelce knows what the cynics might think of his relationship with Taylor Swift — two of the most famous people in America just happen to match up perfectly?—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Lone offenders, according to the document, remain the top threat, but there are also concerns about domestic extremists and foreign terror organizations.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Of 71 terrorist attacks perpetrated in 2022, far-right extremists were responsible for 69%.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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But as Bargatze and everyone in his circle will tell you, naysayers are his fuel.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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As funny as the skit was, there were some naysayers in the mix.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism.—
Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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As political scientist Krzysztof Wasilewski writes, in the 1880s, tarring immigrants as anarchists became a convenient way for American media to smear labor organizing.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Aug. 2024
Noun
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On the other are detractors who call Kirk’s ideology hateful and extreme, criticism that has cost many their jobs as his supporters accuse them of trying to incite further political violence.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
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Public denunciations grow Rokita's request comes as several grassroots efforts grow to publicly shame and punish Kirk’s detractors.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
15 Sep. 2025
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But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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But don't listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Malcontents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malcontents. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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