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On that night in March, to the surprise of nobody, Arsenal ran their mid-table Premier League hosts ragged, beating them 5-1, with Henry and Freddie Ljungberg scoring twice, and Kolo Toure netting the other.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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Nicholson's fireworks would be subsequently aped, and amped up to over-the-top proportions, by other actors and by the future Batman villain himself.—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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But none aped the style of an actual Super Bowl ad more cleverly than this one, clearly modeled after Budweiser’s ads that tend to feature horses and inspirational voiceovers.—
Omar L. Gallaga,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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This idea of reasonableness is easily caricatured as moral timidity or a bloodless neutrality that drains politics of passion.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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For years, national media caricatured our city as a war zone.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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At one point, Schoenbrun mimicked smoking a joint and hugged their stars.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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Hannah's initial relationship with Garrett, however, is part of a plan to attract the attention of her longtime crush, musician Justin Kohl (Josh Heuston) — an onscreen dynamic between Bright and Heuston's characters that partly mimicked their real-life one.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
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But Brandt’s justification for why the game should be played in Denver — which was parroted by Broncos fans — wasn’t rooted in reality.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
13 May 2026
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The moment has been so baked into America's cultural cake that Tea Party Republicans parroted the phrase, not realizing that the film is a satire of sheep mentality and the man who authored it (screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky) was a political lefty.—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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Inside are museum spaces that tell the story of Obama’s Presidency, grounded in the country’s tormented racial history.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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In 1976, the Legislature turned the California Coastal Commission into a permanent agency that has tormented property owners and localities ever since.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
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Another neighbor, who didn’t respond to CNN’s request for comment, also harassed him with drones, Connell said.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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And more than 1 in 5 Asian American Pacific Islanders reported being harassed or insulted in the past year because of their race.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC news,
14 May 2026
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Streep imitated how Hawn, 80, would arrive on set, always apologetic.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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For starters, as Anthropic’s explicit focus on mitigating the risks of AI has apparently won the trust of many consumers, OpenAI has imitated many of its rival’s safety initiatives.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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