The Nuggets ended the game on a 21-5 run and a catharsis, as Jamal Murray nailed a dagger 3-pointer and played to the crowd that had jeered his team not long ago.
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
About 100 feet from the sheriff’s immaculate enclave, jailers who worked for Smith jeered as Mitchell shivered in his own waste, court records show.
By this token, the politician who steals scraps of another’s rhetoric (even if the actual stealing is performed by speechwriters) is derided as if he had been found watching pornography.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
The number was almost universally derided at the time and some say the San Francisco aesthetic of the show was misunderstood.
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Culture Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
13 Mar. 2026
The speedy outfielder hadn’t sniffed the big leagues in five years.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
At the time, fellow Arab leaders sniffed, but today, with the enormous cost of regional chaos weighing directly on the Gulf, the king’s words are prescient.
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