as in objection
a feeling or declaration of disapproval or dissent
despite the earnest expostulations of her friends, Jessica continued to date the foul-tempered guy
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The pages of No More are composed of gnomic iterations, fragments of thought or expostulation, and dialogue with her devoted partner Yann Andréa, who compiled No More in the penultimate year of her life.
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Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
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Venu’s three backers, which collectively have spent more than $50 million preparing Venu to go live, then filed an appeal to the Second Circuit, laying out their objections to the ruling in a brief filed in September.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Despite these objections, the Washington D.C. appeals court said the CFTC was unable to provide substantial evidence demonstrating that these markets would cause significant harm to the public interest.Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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In recent decades, news outlets have typically called the presidential race late on election night or the morning after, with two notable exceptions.Rachel Barber, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
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So, with the notable exception of Bouchard as sheriff, Democratic incumbents had strong leads in their bids to return to countywide offices.Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Earlier on Wednesday, the union representing the department’s rank-and-file officers, whose complaints to county officials triggered the report, asserted that their recent public criticism of Corpus only had to do with her job performance.Ryan Macasero, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The day after Simpson’s arrest last month, a federal complaint was filed against him.Antonio Planas, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Expostulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expostulation. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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