1
as in to pooh
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2
as in to quarrel (with)
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That group is protesting Tesla CEO Elon Musk's influential role in the Trump administration.—
Emma Bowman,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025 -
In Santa Cruz, several hundred people gathered at the corner of Ocean and Water streets at a busy intersection near the county government center to protest Trump and his policies.—
Harriet Blair Rowan,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Pundits complained last year’s Cannes was a light affair, but that had to do with the bottleneck created by the strikes, for one.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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The new plan arrives after many existing Claude subscribers complained of hitting rate limits frequently.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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The temporary ruling in favor of 19 Democratic state attorneys general was met with scorn over the weekend from the White House and Musk, who called for the judge to be impeached.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
10 Feb. 2025
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Klay Thompson has already been scorned by his new team.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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There are plenty of glaring examples, such as Steve Jobs and Google being rejected by some of the world’s most renowned VCs (https://www.bvp.com/anti-portfolio).—
Dileep Rao,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Superior Court Judge Craig Collins from neighboring Gaston county also rejected it after Tench’s friends and family — his mother, sister and aunts — submitted and read aloud letters underlining the effect Tench’s disappearance and apparent death have had.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2025
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People who dislike Phish do so with equal fervor, often while making jokes about the degenerative effects of LSD on the prefrontal cortex.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Disagreements can often come from employees who dislike change or cannot see the whole picture.—
John Abusaid,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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As a result of actions like these, most lawyers in China refuse to represent clients disfavored by the CCP.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Trump picked Musk to oversee a push to shrink the federal government, cull the federal workforce and slash spending on agencies disfavored by the White House, prompting a flurry of legal action.—
Amelia Thomson-Deveaux,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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The end of the parole program is part of Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration paths that allow people to temporarily come to the U.S. Republicans also criticized the parole program as an overreach and abuse of executive presidential power.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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However, the commission's case, which was first filed in 2020, criticized Zuckerberg's media company of accumulating rivals as a way of preventing any competition in the social media industry.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Object (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/object%20%28to%29. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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