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At the start of the finale, original traitor Reyes had just been banished at the roundtable.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Advertisement The potential traitors—played by Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, and Marisa Abela—also happen to be two sets of couples.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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The track was written by John and his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin, as well as Brandi Carlile and Andrew Watt.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
27 Feb. 2025
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There’s his famous on-and-off relationship with Selena Gomez, which ended years ago—Gomez is now engaged to former Bieber collaborator Benny Blanco.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
26 Feb. 2025
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Dignitaries in the sellout crowd included Mayor Eugene Sawyer, Illinois Gov. James Thompson, baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Bartlett Giamatti.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Colorado’s last home sellout came on Feb. 26, 2022, as the Buffaloes defeated No. 2 Arizona 79-63 backed by a capacity crowd of 11,079.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
23 Feb. 2025
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This is all happening because the person who’s supposed to be leading the charge against the spread of communicable disease is something of a turncoat, instead working to increase our vulnerability to these pathogens.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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This is less a chant and more a fireworks show celebrating the permanent expungement of all turncoats and pests.—
Stephen Kearse,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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According to prosecutors, the conspirators placed phone calls from centers in and near Montreal between the summer of 2021 and June 4, 2024, as part of the scheme.—
Hank Sanders,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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The conspirators in total forfeited $464,000 seized during the case.—
Silas Morgan,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 Mar. 2025
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Slayer and Pantera will perform Oct. 10; Slipknot and Five Finger Death Punch on Oct. 11; Iron Maiden and Judas Priest on Oct. 12; and Mötley Crüe and Disturbed on Oct. 13.—
Michael McGough,
Sacramento Bee,
5 Mar. 2025
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However, some Christians have criticized the musical for de-emphasizing the divinity of Jesus and showing Judas as a sympathetic character.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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