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Musk has not been sheepish about staking the company’s future on autonomous software.Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
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The scene where Acuña calls Drake’s mom to tell her that her son is (temporarily) out of the band, while a sheepish Drake stands nearby him, is sufficiently intense to make a viewer cringe with sympathetic embarrassment.Joe Leydon, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
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The Movie finds its titular alpha wolf Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) a teenager no more, but still struggling with the same hangdog loneliness.CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
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The man is Calum (Normal People's Paul Mescal), dangling on the cusp of 32, handsome in a hangdog way, with an arm in a cast and a big smile that can't entirely hide the distress that nips at his joy.A.A. Dowd, Chron, 9 Nov. 2022
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His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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These officials could, in turn, redistribute some of their private goods among their own servile lieutenants, but the monarch retained ultimate power to grant or revoke their privileged status.Serhiy Kudelia, Foreign Affairs, 27 Feb. 2014
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Perhaps that’s why the character feels so one-dimensional compared to the franchise’s previous antagonists — that and the script’s abject failure to involve Gina in the story’s emotional stakes.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
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Here is a region with the world’s highest population and the vulgar coexistence of unspeakable wealth as well as abject poverty.Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Jenn, while possibly the best person on the show, is too meek and too little in her own estimation.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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The conclusion hasn’t changed, despite meek attempts at introducing gendered representation.Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2024
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The humble hippopotamus is finally getting its chance to shine on the big screen thanks to an upcoming project being launched at the American Film Market.Alex Ritman, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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The popular perception of how the Grimms collected their tales was captured in an illustration that appeared in an eighteen-nineties German magazine: Jacob and Wilhelm are shown visiting a humble cottage, listening to an older peasant woman.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement Trump’s rhetoric about jobs has been widely condemned by Democrats and Black leaders who have called it a racist and insulting way of implying that Black and Hispanic Americans take menial jobs.Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
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Instead of waiting around, doing menial tasks to pass the time like in Persona 5, the protagonist can take on interesting side quests, improve their relationship with Followers, or refine their Royal Virtues, Metaphor ReFantazio’s version of Persona’s social stats.Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Lamblike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamblike. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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