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Adjective
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Although dogs appear to be less susceptible to the virus than cats, and generally experience milder symptoms, contaminated food products pose risks to canines, too.—
Emily Anthes,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025 -
All skin is susceptible to the damage that UV rays can cause, including wrinkles, premature aging, and skin cancer, so slather yourself with a generous amount of SPF daily, and not just once.—
Emily Orofino,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 2025
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He's lost two sets of parents and has to keep his useless adoptive brother alive and journey to Mele, a mystical place that is believed to be a paradise that many think is just a fairytale told to gullible lion cubs.—
Meredith G. White,
The Arizona Republic,
17 Dec. 2024
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As a result, the very outcome the founders most feared, namely election of a demagogue by a gullible cult of true-believers, has been made possible because of the Electoral College, which was originally designed to avoid precisely that outcome.—
Joseph J. Ellis,
The Mercury News,
31 Oct. 2024
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But Betancourt’s classmates found his take prudish and unsophisticated.—
Jake Nevins,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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The accelerating expansion of China’s nuclear arsenal suggests that its leaders have recently decided that its historically small and unsophisticated capabilities were insufficient for Beijing’s needs and ambitions.—
Abraham M. Denmark,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Nov. 2021
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Foster is adept at taking easy ownership of every proposal or project.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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According to the authority on all things laundry, The Laundress, the process for washing down pillows is relatively easy.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2025
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By my naive estimation, our home sat at least three blocks south of the street no wildfire could realistically cross in any event other than the biblical apocalypse.—
Mikey O'Connell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Jan. 2025
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His first assignment is prosecuting Ma Ka-kit (Mason Fung), a naive young man pressured by his legal team into pleading guilty to drug charges despite his innocence.—
Richard Kuipers,
Variety,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Goldsberry is both funny, guileless, and dear, and ends the show with a kind of light wave, a gentle gesture for what turns out to be a very good night.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
23 Dec. 2024
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And Norton’s flawless portrayal of a guileless kid who might be suffering from multiple personality disorder is worth the admission price alone.—
Tomris Laffly,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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All that’s there is an artless effort to provoke outrage — Tony Hinchcliffe with the world’s strongest Boston accent.—
Joe Berkowitz,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2024
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The untenable toxicity of this artless warfare has led some researchers to rethink the ancient script—and flip it: know yourself, know your enemy.—
Beth Mole,
Ars Technica,
15 July 2024
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What results from this corporate retrenchment is unknown, but the trends are clear, and the paths forward are strewn with mind fields for the unwary or unprepared business leader. Follow me on LinkedIn.—
Timothy J. McClimon,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Employment data bristle with pitfalls for the unwary, even among experienced economists such as Ohanian.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Dec. 2024
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“Deceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceivable. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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