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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filibusters
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Kenji lectures on the difference between Japanese static views of ruins versus Western dynamic interpretations and carries the memory of past earthquakes.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 Sep. 2025 -
Yeanoplos lectures throughout the United States on the topics of valuation, applied finance and financial analysis, has been a faculty member for the AICPA’s National Business Valuation School for close to 25 years and is currently on the faculty of the ABA Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute.—
BySteel Rose,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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But, then again, the market is a forward-looking machine with a motor that never stalls out.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
21 Sep. 2025
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These early shifts—less COVID vaccination; fewer options for flu, MMR, and chickenpox vaccines; and, perhaps soon, delays to the hepatitis-B schedule—may seem benign enough.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
18 Sep. 2025
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Too much light in the evening — that extra hour from daylight saving time — delays that surge and the cycle gets out of sync.—
Jeremy Tanner,
The Hill,
17 Sep. 2025
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But while the new movie dawdles on its way to Toxie’s origins, then rushes toward a finale with a lurching rhythm that verges on calculated ineptitude, its spirit never feels inauthentic.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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In public, Mark Kerr speaks amiably about his trainer turned rival and even takes him along for a rowdy impromptu meet-and-greet, but the lack of friction comes off less as a sign of his unflappability than of Safdie’s indifference to probing a friendship beyond buddy-comedy depth.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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Below, Tridente speaks to Variety about what’s new at MIA this year.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Amid these efforts, trust in AI lags behind usage.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Satellite reaches almost everywhere but comes with higher costs and data limits and DSL lags behind with slower speeds over aging copper lines.—
Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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Strawberries are delicious in cobblers, trifles, and crisps.—
Nancy LeBrun,
Verywell Health,
4 Aug. 2025
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A student quoted in that article said Dixon often talks politics in class.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Douthat talks to a wide range of guests, nudging them toward unexpectedly cosmic discussions of good and evil and the future of humanity.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Filibusters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filibusters. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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