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Recent Examples of milquetoastFringe filmmaking demands taking risks and, like it or not, even the most milquetoast material can be deemed too inappropriate for families by the extra-cautious MPA.—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024 The elections demonstrated the voters’ persistent support for political movements embracing right-wing populism on issues related to immigration, crime and social issues while abandoning milquetoast traditional center-right parties for failing to bring meaningful change.—Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 21 July 2024 No one wants to be trapped in that moribund milquetoast normie Christianity.—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024 One day, a milquetoast accountant (Jason Bateman) discovers that Diane has hacked his information, which leads to a crazy cross-country trip in which the two characters are reluctantly stuck together.—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for milquetoast
McGee, Knight, and Torres step onto the Elevator of Schemes and Secrets full of speculation, like why is LaRoche interested in scoring political points with this case, and what kind of coward hides behind a fake name anyway?
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Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
17 Dec. 2024
This sick, twisted and evil coward showed no regard for Laken or human life.
Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.
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Alex Mar,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2023
Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.
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Nate Jones,
Vulture,
31 Aug. 2024
Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?
Indeed, overgrowing mutant clones in mice have been seen to revert to normal growth, as Jones and a co-author describe in the 2023 Annual Review of Cancer Biology.
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Amber Dance,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Jan. 2025
The reveal video featured a Joy-Con attaching to a cover and zooming around on a surface like a mouse.
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