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Unfortunately, Mama Elena, a woman driven by cruelty and customs, has other plans.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
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Regardless, the making of the monster lies not in the moment of senseless cruelty but in the selfish impulses most ardently encouraged and cultivated by an unforgiving world.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
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At the same time, there is still an intense hatred among many entities surrounding Israel that want to see its demise.Karl Vick, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
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People like that fill me with violent hostility and even hatred.Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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Eastwood’s story runs on the bedrock of the unimpeachable, confident that there is a definite truth to be discovered about an event such as the killing of Kendall and that only malevolence or incompetence could prevent its discovery.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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What Uzumaki never loses is the core idea that the human body is a malleable, spongy thing, available to absorb both kindness, compassion, and good energy and malevolence, evil, and brutality.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
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In the weeks prior, the 31-year-old had become the subject of internet mockery and malice after a clip of him at bandmate Niall Horan’s concert went viral, and his ex-fiancée, Maya Henry, accused him of harassment and abuse in an October 6 TikTok video.Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Simon, 24, was indicted on 19 charges, including malice murder, two counts of felony murder, concealing the death of another, making a false report of a crime and 14 counts of making a false statement.Dakin Andone and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Still, the coach had remained steadfast in his support of Moss in spite of those mistakes.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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In spite of public scrutiny, Congress has managed to keep itself among the highest paying professions.Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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The analysis further showed a strong association between colon cancer risk and obesity, family history of gastrointestinal malignancy, and symptoms such as abdominal pain or rectal bleeding.Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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Once a growth of cells has been discovered in or around the brain, malignancy is determined through a pathology report or biopsy, says Barbaro.Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
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Political discussions at work can often lead to unproductive outcomes, fostering division and hostility among colleagues.Jason Walker, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Talbott and his colleagues also worried that Putin’s mindset and paranoia would produce aggression and hostility.Stephan Kieninger / Made by History, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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His Cyrano is the play’s hero, even if the character’s psychological limitations are as much a factor in the story as the machinations of De Guiche, whose malignity is sent up in Nathanson’s flamboyantly comic turn.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
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For a decade, the central drama of Trumpism has concerned the Republican élites who continued to support him—the story has been about their malignity, or opportunism, or willful moral blindness.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2023
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“Abusiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abusiveness. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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