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Spencer Platt | Getty Images It may be make-or-break time for the stock market, based on the price charts.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2025 -
Boise State will end February with a make-or-break three-game stretch against New Mexico (home), Nevada (road), and Utah State (home).—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Feb. 2025
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But its clutter of themes ultimately feels rushed, dissipating in a climactic twist and life-goes-on fadeout that both seem less than the buildup deserves.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Our climactic scene was recently filmed in Thailand at a real ONE Championship fight environment with over 10,000 people.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2025
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The other crucial order to me is fahsah, a dense, mulchy stew of shredded lamb and vegetables fragrant with cumin and coriander.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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Institutions like Catalan Films and the Catalonia Film Commission play a crucial role in promoting and internationalizing the region’s film production and help find investments and showcase the region’s service companies, contributing to the industry’s overall growth.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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Asked on This Week with George Stephanopoulos about John Fetterman’s advice that Democrats calm down a little rather than elevate every Trump controversy to a matter of existential urgency, the Connecticut senator replied with a flurry of apocalyptic rhetoric about Elon Musk and all his works.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
11 Feb. 2025
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The idea is that no country would dare to launch a massive or even limited nuclear strike against an adversary because the result would be a massive counter strike that would turn any nuclear exchange into an apocalyptic scenario where neither side survives.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
6 Feb. 2025
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For this reader, roughly the same age as Sam Raymond, there is uncommon pleasure in the paradoxes of this climacteric tale.—
Claire Messud,
Harper's Magazine,
22 June 2021
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Macerating unripe climacteric fruit in sugar, however, isn’t a substitute for ripening them; that just takes time in your kitchen counter’s fruit basket.—
Bill St. John,
The Denver Post,
8 May 2017
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