No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
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Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
17 Jan. 2025
The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?
Its striking foliage has holes and slits in it, sort of like slices of Swiss cheese does, hence the plant’s nickname.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
Sensing no use for them, Red Feather’s warriors slit their throats — except for the throat of the one with the steely gaze and defiant words to match: Abish.
Boeing executives have already disclosed plans to slash 17,000 jobs and cut costs everywhere from company travel to corporate events.
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Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
26 Jan. 2025
Climate activists who were targeted by hackers say the plot that U.S. officials have been trying to unravel was aimed at disrupting their efforts to fight climate change by pushing governments and society to slash the use of fossil fuels like oil and coal.
Even when the Clippers’ 26-point lead in the third quarter was sliced to 15 by the end of the quarter and to 11 early in the fourth, Leonard sat on the bench.
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Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Instead of stopping with the wall, Martin and his representatives said, his contractor kept slicing, also taking the top off that previously intact 46-foot length of the bluff next to it.
That amount would be split between border security, such as wall funding and money for Border Patrol agents, and modernizing U.S. defense systems.
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Cami Mondeaux,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
16 Jan. 2025
One Pacific Palisades home that survived the Palisades Fire was later split in half by a landslide, CBS News Los Angeles' Rick Montanez reported.
Giants starter Jason Pinnock was cut while playing under Manuel for the Jets in 2021.
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Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2025
Though Trump promised to bring down interest rates on the campaign trail, the president does not directly impact monetary policy, and the Fed many not cut interest rates again for a few months.
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