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an essay evaluating or analyzing something
in a critique of the retrospective, the reviewer faulted it for not including more of the painter's mature works
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Millennials—and even some Gen Z users—were quick to flood the comments with corrections and critiques.
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
To some degree, the critiques were backlash to cinéma vérité, which was falling out of fashion in the disillusioned Watergate era.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The critique has raised questions about Direct File’s future, particularly under GOP control of the White House, Senate and the House of Representatives.
—Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Both offer a critique of bedside manner; patients that, seemingly fine, suddenly lose consciousness; red herrings, dead ends and wrong trees to bark up.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
To some degree, the critiques were backlash to cinéma vérité, which was falling out of fashion in the disillusioned Watergate era.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The critique has raised questions about Direct File’s future, particularly under GOP control of the White House, Senate and the House of Representatives.
—Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Both offer a critique of bedside manner; patients that, seemingly fine, suddenly lose consciousness; red herrings, dead ends and wrong trees to bark up.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Critique.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/critique. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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