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If the club waffles on what should be a tap-in decision to replace Foote, that would be a bad process indicator at the outset of this crucial offseason.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026 -
When the show first premiered, dressing as Eleven with a box of Eggo waffles under her arm was a top Halloween costume, and waffles have been featured in every season since.—
Andrea Beck,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Dec. 2025
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Neville hedges his bet by filling us in on Michaels’ spotlight apprehension, making his reticence a through line.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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Below the threshold, AI hedges your brand or ignores it.—
Jason BARNARD,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2026
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In militaristic sync as they pound treadmills, down protein shakes and take steroid injections in the buttocks, a gymnasium full of lavishly buff (even 24-packed, to quote a droll visual gag) gay men blankly sing the praises of the body-beautiful lifestyle to a pounding EDM beat.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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Protein shakes, protein chips, protein coffee, protein ice cream.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
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At one point, Griffin appears to lunge at Manetta, who evades him by ducking behind a column on the platform.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
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Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
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But a return to tip-top command – often what eludes a Tommy John patient the most – and stuff will require patience.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2026
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Only in the third did the Red Sox put together the kind of inning that so often eludes them.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
2 May 2026
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That’s 937 quarts…which equivocates to almost one ton per day.—
Chaewon Chung,
Sacbee.com,
11 Mar. 2026
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The question of who stands against this darkness — and who equivocates — will be determined by civilizational identity.—
Calev Myers,
New York Daily News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Altman is a booster for San Francisco, advising its mayor and expanding OpenAI’s offices here, while Musk shuns the city and now lives in Texas.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
26 Apr. 2026
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Mitski lies on the lawn looking at the girl leaving her, like the witch in Into the Woods when Rapunzel shuns her and then gets promptly trampled by a giant.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2026
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My concerns were deepest around Narcizo, a brilliant drummer who, among other things, eschews the use of cymbals in fashioning a playing style that sounds like nobody else.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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The flight path eschews Orion's entry into lunar orbit, but ensures the crew's safe return without the need for another substantial engine burn.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Yo-yoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yo-yoes. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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