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What happened in the court, instead, was part of a long overdue reckoning about the country’s obsession with seduction, the uncritical adulation of its artists and the stalling in France of the #MeToo movement.—
Catherine Porter,
New York Times,
13 May 2025 -
The concern is not that AI is inherently detrimental, but rather the potential for its uncritical and pervasive use to lead to a form of agency decay – a diminished capacity for independent thought, problem-solving, and creative generation when the first and easiest solution is to defer to an AI.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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To those of us who look to the Doctor to represent a kind of super-powered secular humanism, the show's credulous embrace of religion and superstition feels like a breach of contract with the viewer.—
Glen Weldon,
NPR,
7 June 2025
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On the mountainous island of Carpathia, somewhere in the Black Sea, the teenage Yuri (Helena Zengel) is being raised by her father Maxim (Willem Dafoe), a credulous, lonely man who lives to hunt the ochi.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
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And find a way for your agent or a trustful intermediary to tell the Heat, too.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025
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Creating lasting, trustful relationships with clients takes patience, persistence, and a commitment to your values.—
Medhat Zaki,
Forbes,
20 Sep. 2024
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The results were hilarious, but Gould also won hearts as the affable (if a bit gullible) victim of the ruse.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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Chamberlain was gullible and naïve, and Chamberlain’s appeasement to Hitler is considered one of the biggest betrayals in modern history.—
Tom Zirpoli,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Mar. 2025
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However, as with other recent crises, unrelated media from other fires has dropped into the online conversation, drawing in otherwise unsuspicious viewers.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Chemirmir, 49, quietly smothered elderly women, making their deaths look unsuspicious, and stole their jewelry, according to police and prosecutors in Dallas and Collin counties.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 Apr. 2022
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However, those who are squeamish might want to avoid these six dog breeds that new research discovered are more susceptible to diarrhea.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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Immigrants are also more susceptible to invisibility as their credit file in the U.S. does not take into account their credit history in their origin country.—
Afshan Musani,
CNBC,
11 June 2025
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Three of McConnell’s five steals came via what’s become his signature play — lurking in the backcourt and taking advantage of unsuspecting and/or lazy inbounds passes for turnovers.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
12 June 2025
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But that news hadn’t spread to dozens of unsuspecting immigrants who arrived at the court for court hearings, citizenship tests and work.—
Rebecca-Ann Jattan,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2025
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Even a naive analysis, one that buys into some very obvious Republican budget tricks, finds that this bill cuts taxes and raises spending by $4 trillion over 10 years — but only pays for about $1.7 trillion of that.—
Ezra Klein,
Mercury News,
28 May 2025
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In the film's early scenes, Cruise displays a naive, unwavering patriotism that seamlessly meshed with the actor's military heroics in Top Gun three years earlier — which makes Kovic's stark transition to impassioned anti-war advocacy all the more surprising in the runtime's second half.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
24 May 2025
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“Overcredulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcredulous. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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