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Already before the earthquakes, Turkish disdain and animosity were communicated to Syrians by the thousand cuts of everyday interactions.—
Alia Malek,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025 -
Despite past animosity toward the ACA, some influential Republicans are coming around to keeping enhanced subsidies signed into law by President Biden.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Both stories are unusually accurate in their sense of hostile inclusion, with French pioneers, Native tribes and white Americans in a state of perpetual antagonism.—
Chris Vognar,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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Yet Trump’s position as president of the United States—the largest funder and primary backer of numerous international organizations—makes his antagonism uniquely consequential.—
Allison Carnegie,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Dec. 2024
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For example, shrinking the size and scope of government is a goal which could help the country, but reducing or trimming government programs for almost any constituency would be fraught with hostility and political costs.—
Frank Lavin,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Just more than 100 were released in late November 2023 during a pause in hostilities, in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.—
Keir Simmons,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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His father was found not guilty of malice murder but guilty on the other eight counts.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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Young’s legal team has tried to make the case that the text and others were evidence of malice, but Axelrod argued that the Marquardt and others involved in reporting the story showed restraint.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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In spite of Gen Z ditching dating apps in favor of IRL hookups, user growth on Feeld has increased 30 percent year-over-year since 2022.—
Jason Parham,
WIRED,
24 Jan. 2025
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The filters make the Evo fun to use in spite of its sluggish focus and terrible LCD.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
23 Jan. 2025
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Another, equally important, is to try to unify the country as far as possible after the rancor of a divisive election campaign.—
Doyle McManus,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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Over time, the Riley rancor tends to dissipate, but the history regarding conflict with the Miami Heat team president is one of moving on.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2025
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The one area in which Trump shows unwavering determination is his enmity toward technical expertise.—
Henry Farrell,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Dec. 2024
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The closest parallel was nearly 50 years ago, when then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat jettisoned decades of enmity and abruptly announced his readiness to travel to Israel, kickstarting diplomacy that led to a peace treaty.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
19 Dec. 2024
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The London Cat, a great skinless feline who likes to turn people inside-out and embodies all the mischief and malevolence of cats).—
Christian Holub,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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David Lynch’s cinematic masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the sadism and malevolence hiding behind the picket fences of middle America.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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