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Gigi Rodriguez The impact of affirming parents Spencer: That's awful.—
Spencer Macnaughton,
Them,
1 Feb. 2025 -
Finally, there’s an interminably long Golden Girls sketch with Acacia (who is fine but not actually funny) and Lydia (who is awful).—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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Rust is a big deal, as is the fact that many Panteras have been mangled by previous owners bestowing hideous enhancements (think bad celebrity plastic surgery) on otherwise desirable cars.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
17 Jan. 2025
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Also, there may be three outfits, but that’s less exciting when all three of them are hideous.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2025
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Indian stocks appear to be recovering from their horrid start to the year.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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For a while now, it’s seemed those were the first words of the incoming year after a particularly horrid annum.—
Brenda Looper,
arkansasonline.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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Traffic was horrible and the private crews can’t turn on a siren, ignore traffic laws, and drive on the wrong side of the road like public firefighters.—
Joseph Bien-Kahn,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2025
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Recommended Trump moves from ‘American carnage’ to ‘a horrible betrayal’ in second inaugural Juries also convicted some on charges of seditious conspiracy, which refers to activities that undermine a state without directly attacking it.—
Patrik Jonsson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Jan. 2025
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Also: Her ugly drag face at the start of the competition has apparently freed her up to do character paints in the challenges that the other girls aren’t touching.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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The star of The Rookie took to Instagram to share the good, bad, and ugly parts of welcoming her third child, daughter Rhiannon.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
28 Jan. 2025
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Essay The Agony and the Ecstasy of the West Edmonton Mall Max Fawcett On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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The clear attempt to further divide our country was abominable.—
Vivian Jones,
The Tennessean,
8 Mar. 2024
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Nowadays, however, fusion is scaled up to vastly bigger groups, thanks to the ability of the world’s media—including social media—to fill our heads with images of horrendous suffering in faraway regional conflicts.—
Harvey Whitehouse,
WIRED,
23 Jan. 2025
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In an era of horrendous inflation, Costco is doing more than any other company to keep costs down for its members.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
23 Jan. 2025
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The return of Dina Manzo wasn’t enough to counter the regrettable new additions, particularly Amber and her loathsome husband, Jim.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
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But the actor only ever knuckles down at being loathsome.—
Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
13 Dec. 2024
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