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as in coats
to form a layer over
the butter should evenly overspread the baking pan
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Defining Gel coats the hair in flexible, humidity-resistant polymers to form structured spirals with zero frizz.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025 -
This finicky, formal style coats every page of the novel with an impressively even surface that doesn’t serve any deeper spiritual purpose.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Seroussi surveys the history and state of attention to music in Jewish Studies and, in doing so, suggests some of the typical approaches, questions, and tensions that can surround any interdisciplinary project that overlaps with Jewish Studies.—
Josh Lambert,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Sep. 2025
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Every guardian has a different set of skills to match each role, but the Tsurugi skills are bespoke to each while the Kagura abilities can be selected from an unlockable pool that overlaps among the group.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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Swift announced The Life of a Showgirl, her LP co-produced with Max Martin and Shellback, in mid-August, and has since shared several vinyl variants with different album covers for the record.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
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The recall covers power banks with model numbers A1647, A1652, A1257, A1681 and A1689 with serial numbers listed on the back or side of the device.—
Daniel Orton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Overspreads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspreads. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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