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Some in the Mar-a-Lago orbit were obsessed with details, but, as one outside adviser put it, were more obsessed about booking a lunch or dinner, hoping to bump into the president-elect to lobby for jobs.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
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And these years in Philadelphia proved troubled ones: As the city’s industrial life was hollowed out, Lynch became obsessed with its factory smokestacks and pervasive smog.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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Cross My Heart, out Jan. 14, follows Rosie, a heart transplant recipient, who becomes fixated on her donor’s husband.—
Megan Collins,
People.com,
12 Jan. 2025
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Key members of India’s foreign policy elite remain fixated on the United States’ relationship with Pakistan during the Cold War and fear its renewal.—
Sumit Ganguly,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2023
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McConnell remembers strangers stopping in the road to pray for the boy before he was rushed to Children’s Hospital New Orleans after a police officer assured the frantic mother that her son was still alive.—
Wendy Grossman Kantor,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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The quick minute-and-a-half clip introduces us to a frantic Mullen, who's testing different codes on a safe to try and break into it.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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The Trump family’s new crypto tokens are worth well over $10 billion on paper, after a frenzied rally pushed up the value of the digital assets in the days before the inauguration.—
Bernhard Warner,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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With that, after yearslong pursuits and more than a month of frenzied speculation about Sasaki, the mystery abruptly dissolved and the answers became clear.—
Ken Rosenthal,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
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One reporter said the fight should be called off, that Clay was hysterical and was endangering himself.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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His hysterical and paranoid tenor made this easy to dismiss as excuse-making for his difficulties governing in his first term and his myriad legal problems.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2025
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Thirty minutes later, the Sun reported, medics still had not tended to a distraught woman half-buried by the shattered stands, groaning, with both legs apparently broken.—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 2025
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Viel found a distraught Pasadena woman who saw flames approaching a coop that housed pet chickens and ducks behind her home on Altadena Drive.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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After a turbulent period of irrational exuberance followed by skepticism, the creator economy appears poised for its second major growth cycle, with M&A activity forecast to accelerate significantly in 2025.—
Ian Shepherd,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Now comes a cataclysm in the country’s foremost blue state that is traceable, in part, to irrational progressive priorities and may prove a millstone around the neck of one of the foremost talents on the Democratic bench, California governor Gavin Newsom.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Monomaniacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniacal. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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