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Recent Examples of inextricable
But mercury is an inextricable part of the equation.
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Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
The art of directing is inextricable from the process of producing.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
Still, Perkins’ sensitive performance adds real grace to the character, and the strain of gender ambiguity buried in the film feels like a starting point for horror’s inextricable relationship with queerness today.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
In many ways, Reber has become inextricable from Lynch’s fandom; her home is an emotional nexus and unofficial museum, teeming with talismans and pieces of art that patrons have left for Laura and Reber over the years.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
The art of directing is inextricable from the process of producing.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
Still, Perkins’ sensitive performance adds real grace to the character, and the strain of gender ambiguity buried in the film feels like a starting point for horror’s inextricable relationship with queerness today.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
In many ways, Reber has become inextricable from Lynch’s fandom; her home is an emotional nexus and unofficial museum, teeming with talismans and pieces of art that patrons have left for Laura and Reber over the years.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inextricable
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Stars of Durant’s stature can be notoriously difficult to pin down for interviews.—
Darnell Mayberry,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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But breaking with Russian gas has been difficult for Austria, which until recently was one of a handful of European countries to keep importing the fuel by pipeline.—
Stanley Reed,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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Which, kind of, explains Dylan’s latest inexplicable Instagram missive: a no-context re-post of a 2016 in-store performance by Machine Gun Kelly at Park Ave.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
27 Feb. 2025
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The glacial pacing and clunky script work in tandem with deviations from the source text, including an inexplicable bathtub masturbation scene, to make a cinematic crime for the ages.—
Eddie Mouradian,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
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Both sides have shown willingness to work toward an agreement, but the issues are knotty and a deal is far from a sure thing.—
Lee Hamilton,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Islam likely travelled to the region with Arab traders, but the erasure of earlier worship systems was the result of a series of knotty events entwined with foreign influences bent on the very existence of the small nation as an integral unit.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Jan. 2025
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Soluble and insoluble fibers help promote regular bowel movements.—
Larell Scardelli,
Verywell Health,
5 Mar. 2025
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The bottom line: Juicing fruits and vegetables removes most insoluble fiber from the foods, and fiber is key.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Tech companies are working on quantum computing technology, which promises to solve complex problems that are currently unsolvable with traditional computers.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Most fundamentally, quantum computing promises to provide answers to problems previously thought unsolvable—puzzles that would take eons for the world’s best classical computers to crack.—
Charina Chou,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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After a massive bitcoin facility started operating in the town of Granbury, people of all ages began to experience a range of unexplainable medical issues, including hypertension, chest pain, heart palpitations, migraines, vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and panic attacks.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
18 Dec. 2024
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This fixation helps explain what is otherwise unexplainable — his bizarre obsession with changing the maps.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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Do what would be impossible in reality – explore 3D structures, perform simulated surgeries, or conduct physics experiments in zero gravity.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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The exact number of people going south is impossible to count, but anecdotally there is no question the numbers are in the thousands and quickly rising.—
Matt Rivers,
ABC News,
26 Feb. 2025
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