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if she just agrees to cooperate, everything will be hunky-dory
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All seems hunky-dory until another car speeds onto the scene, plowing into Carol and Milo.
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Nick Caruso, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
McFaul argues that differences between individual leaders explain Russia’s alternating policies of cooperation and confrontation: everything is hunky-dory when Dmitry Medvedev is president, but trouble comes when Putin takes charge.
—Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2014
Ah, if only all of life’s temptations had an expiration date after which all would be hunky-dory.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
But all was not completely hunky-dory at the station.
—Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
From the outside, everything looks hunky-dory at Theatre Three.
—Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
These were not announcements Belichick would make on his own if everything were hunky-dory down in Foxborough.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
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Nick Caruso, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
McFaul argues that differences between individual leaders explain Russia’s alternating policies of cooperation and confrontation: everything is hunky-dory when Dmitry Medvedev is president, but trouble comes when Putin takes charge.
—Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2014
Ah, if only all of life’s temptations had an expiration date after which all would be hunky-dory.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
But all was not completely hunky-dory at the station.
—Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
From the outside, everything looks hunky-dory at Theatre Three.
—Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
These were not announcements Belichick would make on his own if everything were hunky-dory down in Foxborough.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
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