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Most action items die from forgetfulness, not malice.—
Ishaan Agarwal,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025 -
The incident was reported on July 11 at Fahey’s home where the two men from New York were arrested on voyeurism with malice, first-degree criminal trespassing and second-degree breach of peace charges.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
18 July 2025
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The filmmakers know exactly how to leverage Hawkins’s warm, naturalistic screen presence, using her offbeat sweetness to keep the audience guessing as to her character’s exact level of malevolence.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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In the room with us in Valencia, the dolls eyes’ are hypnotic, carrying a trace of malevolence.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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Speaking of her village, a month earlier, the reality star opened up about how close her family is, revealing that there is some amount of jealousy between her daughter and her cousins.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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My Beanie Baby-collecting younger self is beside herself with jealousy… but the Pop Mart founder, Wang Ning, is laughing all the way to the bank.—
Maggie McGrath,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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And in spite of the inner change faith induces, converts rarely speak of it as a conscious decision but as a potent fact that intervenes, imposes, and persuades.—
Terry Nguyen
July 23,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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Here’s why employers in 2025 are hiring you because of your side hustle, not in spite of it.—
Andrew Fennell,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Despite that virulence, some forms of plague did ultimately die out.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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While VUMs require more testing to establish their true risks to public health, VOIs are explicitly confirmed to have genetic changes that affect virus characteristics like transmissibility and virulence.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
9 June 2025
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Bing had complained of harassment and left behind a manifesto filled with resentment.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
31 July 2025
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Your job should challenge you—not drain you to the point of resentment.—
Sherry Taylor,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Congress should not go out of its way to create greater inefficiency in a private sector that has made the U.S. economy the envy of the world.—
John L. Mica,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 July 2025
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The American university is the envy of the world—drawing students from every continent—for the intense faculty mentoring that fosters young adults into professional and civic life.—
Peter Balakian
July 9,
Literary Hub,
9 July 2025
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Guitarist Tom Bukovac composed a flowing instrumental riff to open the performance, creating a little extra sweetness that helps hide the passive-aggressive venom.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
24 July 2025
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Though a bite from any rattlesnake is dangerous and should be treated immediately, the Mojave rattlesnake packs one of the most potent venoms with a nasty neurotoxic twist that can affect your nervous system.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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