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Grande’s yearslong cold war with the media finally bubbled over after some writers called out her friend Justin Bieber for lip-syncing during Grande’s otherwise-successful headlining Coachella set.
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Justin Curto, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
The bitcoin price shot past its previous all-time high of over £70,000 per bitcoin this year before dropping back to around $60,000 as the U.S. and China begin what could become a crypto cold war.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
However, before this cold war over property erupts, the film allows the shattering grief on either side to fester, allowing both factions to feel irrevocably human before things hit the fan.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Something of a narrative twin-flame energy with Nagata, both expressing a drive to heat things up on either side of a cold war.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 8 Feb. 2024
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Justin Curto, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
The bitcoin price shot past its previous all-time high of over £70,000 per bitcoin this year before dropping back to around $60,000 as the U.S. and China begin what could become a crypto cold war.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
However, before this cold war over property erupts, the film allows the shattering grief on either side to fester, allowing both factions to feel irrevocably human before things hit the fan.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Something of a narrative twin-flame energy with Nagata, both expressing a drive to heat things up on either side of a cold war.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 8 Feb. 2024
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Katie Hafner: For women in the U.K. between the two world wars, studying chemistry was especially hard.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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Season 2 is a sweeping love story against a massive world war.Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
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There have long been differing interests among different ethnic armed groups, which have fought one another before and during the ongoing civil war.Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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This chapter of the cannabis civil war is coming to a close just as Congress is set to go into the lame duck session and as both candidates for President have espoused support for legalization.Robert Hoban, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document by John Bidwell Rozina Ali God’s Directive After the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims as part of a holy war.The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2024
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With Gamestop, this eventually wrapped back around into something that’s part cult, part get-rich-quick scheme, part righteous holy war against investors, and part cyberpunk cautionary tale.Amber DaSilva / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 July 2024
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Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in a limited war since last October, but Israeli forces have significantly escalated the scope of their attacks since the beginning of September in an attempt to force Hezbollah to stop its attacks on northern Israel.Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Sep. 2024
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In this scenario, which may already be coming to fruition, the meager hope is that the conflict transforms into simply a more limited war.Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Cold war.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20war. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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