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Then came subsequent criticism about her selection for the 2024 Women’s Olympic team – especially considering Caitlin Clark’s absence – followed by her Las Vegas Aces’ loss in the 2024 WNBA Finals.—
C. Isaiah Smalls II,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2025 -
There have been many waves of criticism, pointing out the impossibility of carrying out the test in a precise or useful way.—
Jaron Lanier,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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Yet some of us in the audience, disgusted by the persistence of Nazism and anti-immigrant invective in the present, may well appreciate the force of McQueen’s rhetoric.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2024
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Books, Arts & Manners Books A Hero’s Bargain Brian Stewart In an age when heroism is often seen as a relic of a bygone era, the life and death of Alexei Navalny stands as a challenge and a rebuke to progressive nostrums of the day.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
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Previous presidents accepted rebukes from the courts on their executive orders, including in the case where the Supreme Court struck down President Harry Truman's attempt to seize steel mills.—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Flash forward 92-plus years to Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a bleak, lurid festival of racist hate and profane vituperation so vile that even fellow Republicans, who have turned a blind eye to Trump’s character for years, are distancing themselves from the event.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Oct. 2024
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The politicization of the COVID response has only worsened this trend, likely resulting in part from Trump’s vituperation.—
Matt Motta,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2024
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Channels should be in place for reporting suspicious activity without fear of reprimand or overstepping boundaries.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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None of the incidents netted Christopher Moulton, now a detective with OPD, a sanction more serious than a reprimand, records show.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
Orlando Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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The suspect has been identified as Martin Villalobos Junior, aged 27, a former resident who currently has a protection from abuse order issued against him to stay away from the property.—
Christina Shaw,
FOXNews.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The band also lost a defamation aspect of the lawsuit after accusing their former manager David Loeffler of abuse.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2025
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The bookseller brought up a high-profile example: Boris Akunin, a best-selling author of historical detective fiction, who has faced nearly every type of opprobrium for his criticism of Putin and the war.—
Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2025
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But his tantrum was matched in its immaturity by the Democrats who had glued lollipop signs with various messages of opprobrium on popsicle sticks.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Advertisement China’s Foreign Ministry also issued a vehement reproof.—
Elaine Kurtenbach,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Dec. 2024
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So your best response is either to ignore the remark, which is a reproof in itself, or to make a joke of it.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
9 July 2024
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