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Wolfe Herd’s story is somewhat different, however; Swiped is an unofficial biopic for the simple reason that key parts of the story are still subject to a stifling non-disclosure agreement, for reasons that soon become horribly clear.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
19 Sep. 2025 -
The house is haunted by a family of farmers that lived and died on the land, murdered horribly by the patriarch of the family, but really, the problem is the demon that controls the mirror and its dark reflections.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Even raid racers are not terribly excited about that, and apparently even like the previous World’s First team is even going to bother with it.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Set in his native Scotland and lovingly photographed, the film tantalizes even without a terribly original story.—
Stephen Farber,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Chargers swept the Broncos last year, and Jim Harbaugh’s squad looks awfully good through two weeks.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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Much of the mainstream baseball media is awfully excited about Grisham’s emergence this season, and believe that the Yankees should bestow big dollars and years upon him.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Regardless of the potential upside, new product launches still experience alarmingly high rates of failure, with research suggesting failure rates closer to 40%.—
Esade Business & Law School,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Animals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, largely due to human activity.—
Darian Woods,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But before the title even flashes on screen, we are granted the disturbingly detailed view of a bullet ripping through the face of a young boy.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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Apparently, disturbingly short.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Most recently, he was badly injured after a high–speed car crash in New Hampshire in August.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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Things go very badly in the first episode, when a home invasion gone wrong puts Robbie in an impossible situation.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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