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This inflexible posture, which overwhelmingly favors the left, is at the root of everything wrong with our modern news media.
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Becket Adams, National Review, 25 May 2025
Financial mismanagement is at the root of closures such as Acero and other charter operators that have shuttered in recent years, the report states.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Yet, no amount of personal motivation can overcome the political and economic structures at the root of the 0.5 million members of Gen Z reported to have never had a job.
—Lauren Coulman, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Pink Elephant steeps itself in themes of moving through tumult that feel informed by the challenge to Butler’s nobility and to our notion of the stability of the family bond at the root of Arcade Fire, while the band activity minimizes chances that possible sources of frustration come up.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 May 2025
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Becket Adams, National Review, 25 May 2025
Financial mismanagement is at the root of closures such as Acero and other charter operators that have shuttered in recent years, the report states.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Yet, no amount of personal motivation can overcome the political and economic structures at the root of the 0.5 million members of Gen Z reported to have never had a job.
—Lauren Coulman, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Pink Elephant steeps itself in themes of moving through tumult that feel informed by the challenge to Butler’s nobility and to our notion of the stability of the family bond at the root of Arcade Fire, while the band activity minimizes chances that possible sources of frustration come up.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 May 2025
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“At the root of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20root%20of. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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