as in unfaithful
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Adjective
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The Singularity, published three years earlier, during the same affair, concerns a scientist who turns a mountain into a supercomputer and gives it the personality of his dead wife, a younger woman who was persistently unfaithful to him.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025 -
Green asked the reporter, who alleged that the singer was unfaithful to his former fiancée.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Lynch plays Cole as a secular prophet, a grand and monumental presence dispensing wisdom and judgment with a self-deprecating yet oracular intensity.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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This actually put the current valuation at 25x long-term earnings, which could be considered reasonable with the strong balance sheet and long-term secular growth.—
GuruFocus,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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And in this case, there’s nothing more sinful than talking about LeBron James trades.—
Dan Woike,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
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But it also was forged from a particular kind of alchemy that separates a sinful holiday confection from a sugar-sodden mess.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
19 Nov. 2024
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Picaresque, amusing, and brisk, this is a worldly hangout novel of 21st-century manners.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
26 Dec. 2024
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And the spiritual rationale for generosity turns out to be the same as the worldly one: hope in a good future.—
Matthew Scogin,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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China, for example, plans to launch its own sample return mission to Mars in 2028 with the goal of returning those samples to Earth in 2031.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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With nine matches in January across four competitions, focus remains on potential returning players, with fellow defender Takehiro Tomiyasu also on the mend.—
Art de Roché,
The Athletic,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Backsliding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backsliding. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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