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While their work has a core of seriousness, their onstage persona is free of the pedantry leftists get maligned for, more hapless millennial than Marxist lecturer.—
E. Alex Jung,
Vulture,
21 May 2026 -
But our understanding of pedantry, denoting the sticklerishness of academic specialists and grammar obsessives, is a relatively narrow one.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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For full daily and monthly horoscopes as well as expert readings, see our full Horoscopes experience.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
20 June 2026
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The main staircase in the center of the lobby—a replica of the original from the early 1800s—is flanked by a grand piano on one side and a cozy reading nook on the other.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 June 2026
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