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Recent Examples of hell-bent
Advertisement The Lakers, hell-bent on getting up more three-point shots after finishing second to last in attempts last season, all looked eager to launch.
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Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Rather than building on Republicans’ solid record on tax policy from his presidency and earlier, Donald Trump seems hell-bent on undermining it.
—The Editors, National Review, 14 Oct. 2024
Andra Day gives one of the year's best genre performances as Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother raising two kids in a house hell-bent on taking their souls.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2024
Breathtakingly gory and hell-bent on a very particular type of early-aughts destruction, Final Destination 2 is a slasher movie crossed with something approaching a supernatural action film.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2024
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Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Rather than building on Republicans’ solid record on tax policy from his presidency and earlier, Donald Trump seems hell-bent on undermining it.
—The Editors, National Review, 14 Oct. 2024
Andra Day gives one of the year's best genre performances as Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother raising two kids in a house hell-bent on taking their souls.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2024
Breathtakingly gory and hell-bent on a very particular type of early-aughts destruction, Final Destination 2 is a slasher movie crossed with something approaching a supernatural action film.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2024
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Back home on Wall Street, meanwhile, Lutnick seems intent on reviving the moribund SPAC market.Dan Primack, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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President of baseball operations Craig Breslow seems intent on upgrading his starting rotation, based on recent comments to The Athletic.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Others, however, held that term limits are wrong for Morgan Hill, saying the measure would needlessly remove dedicated public servants from office.Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The dedicated graphics card is capable of 1080p gaming at medium settings just as long as the title isn’t too demanding and will help with any graphic design tasks.Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Company leaders nominally accepted the resolute reformulation, but still accepted their nation’s long-standing conventions.Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
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Meanwhile, in the work of the list’s four Arizona firms, the state’s sublime tradition of Desert Modernism, solidified most notably throughout Phoenix in the 1950s in the single-family work of Alfred Beadle, continues statewide with resolute spiritedness.Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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And Powell made clear that the Fed is determined to maintain its statutory independence from Congress and the Presidency.Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
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Appointment or not, all were determined to make it to the border and eventually Southern California.Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Moody yet insistent, Purple Basil can conjure disparate moods depending on the lighting of a room or even the sheen of a particular bookcase or molding.Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2024
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Advertisement Movies For Subscribers The 27 best movie theaters in Los Angeles Nov. 22, 2023 During a long country weekend, however, the hosts’ energetic hospitality betrays an edge, mainly to do with Paddy’s mercurial, insistent personality and flashes of ill temper toward Ant.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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Shanahan isn’t sure the bye week has all that much to do with what happens when play resumes.Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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In the case of Old Commonwealth, as with nearly every brand, the truth probably lands somewhere in the middle, but one thing is for sure—this whiskey can verifiably be traced back to Julian Van Winkle II of Pappy Van Winkle fame.Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Courtney is adamant that their mom (Vernee Watson) needs cataract surgery, but as the more successful sister, Gaby’s words carry more weight.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Paul Heyman, one of the key figures in The Bloodline saga, has been adamant that WWE remains in the early stages of a storyline that started way back in 2020.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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But his obituaries were single-minded about his achievements.Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
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Win McNamee/Getty Images North America The Federal Reserve moved aggressively Wednesday to start cutting interest rates as its single-minded focus on fighting inflation gives way to a growing interest in protecting the job market.Scott Horsley, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Hell-bent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hell-bent. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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