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Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025 -
Officers opened an investigation and sent the note to the state police crime lab for forensic analysis, authorities said.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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There’s no backstory here of how this version of the city came to be, except in personal asides.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Sometimes, his wisecracks and confessional asides come as a direct address.—
Lisa Kennedy,
The Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2025
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This is a sterile, forgettable little movie that has quickly come to function more as a time capsule than a salient bit of commentary, but there’s something valuable about the sobriety of its perspective.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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Indeed, the annals of stock market commentaries are replete with prognostications that, in retrospect, were almost comically wrong.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Obiter dictum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obiter%20dictum. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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