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Adverb
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Barcelona president Joan Laporta was firmly behind his team going to Miami.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025 -
But 2025 has firmly accelerated his move from rising talent to in-demand star with three films and three wildly different performances.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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This would include more stoutly discouraging the delusion and possibly being completely upfront and clamping down on it.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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For long-haul trips, consider the Southern Hemisphere for a jolt of vitamin D in a rugged, determinedly uncommercial spot, or take a dip in a memorable, albeit temporary, Japanese onsen.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
20 Oct. 2025
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Two years on from the attacks, October 7 is an opportunity to recognize that authoritarianism is no longer creeping onward but rather marching determinedly.—
Aviva Klompas,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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The eponymous coffee table marks the 20th anniversary of his resolutely independent fashion house.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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After Johnson gave his answer to that resolutely dumb question, several other luminaries took a whack at the zeitgeist piñata.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The protagonist of this audaciously spoofy spy novel is Hal Knight, a comedian who has resigned in disgrace from his other job, as a Democratic congressman, after a video depicting him insulting an actress went viral.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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For example, Stars Coffee emerged after Starbucks (SBUX) exited in 2022, adopting an audaciously familiar logo of a woman with a star above her head.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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And who better than Harris to pilot dancers boldly into new spaces?—
Guillermo Perez,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani The Gold Q-Hugo goes to BOUCHRA, directed by Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, a heartfelt and evocative film that mixes animation and docu-fiction; in a year that highlights genre, this film boldly defies it.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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There’s a witchy older woman, played gamely by the great Robin Bartlett, who brings to mind Ann Dowd in Hereditary and Ruth Gordon in Rosemary’s Baby.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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On a saddle between the first and second 13er, Michelle gamely smiled when Ryan snapped the last photo that was ever taken of her, hiking along the ridge backdropped by the mountain’s famous east face with the Bowl of Tears shimmering far below.—
Ted Katauskas,
Outside,
23 Sep. 2025
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