By refusing to specify details of the case, the government keeps the possibility alive of changing their reasoning or their claims to have the same effect for different reasons—just as the mob changes its reasoning for killing Cinna.
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JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
The label doesn’t specify the thread count, but the sheets certainly felt soft and luxurious.
The arrangement and colors denote a sensitivity to the space they are held in, allowing Palazzolo’s work to blend in eloquently without getting lost in a room that is clearly more dynamic than the typical white cube.
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Mario Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Blue circles mark Taiwan’s naval assets, with red denoting China’s.
Sydney in the eighties was sometimes called the San Francisco of the Southern Hemisphere, known for its drag clubs and bathhouses dotting a downtown strip nicknamed the Golden Mile.
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Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
What the franchise does not have, at least not for the time being, is a team nickname unencumbered by legal red tape.
In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.
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Kristin Lam,
USA TODAY,
20 Nov. 2019
In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.
They’ve been stigmatized as unkempt or unprofessional, banned in schools and workplaces through discriminatory policies that the CROWN Act was created to dismantle.
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Jailynn Tayor,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
However, characters with mental health conditions were primarily presented in a negative context and often stigmatized or disparaged.
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