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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Preservationists are complaining that Tranquillity’s plan would harm the open views in that part of town.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
22 Apr. 2025
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In another email to Instagram leaders in 2017, Systrom complained that Instagram got no new headcount despite a wide investment to grow the company’s video ambitions.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Many Americans scorn the Ukrainian flag and people who display it.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2025
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Among the biggest global hits has been the XXL Size Wife franchise — the storyline follows a plus-size woman who loses weight and seeks revenge on those who’ve scorned her — which has been remade from its original Chinese into eight languages, including English, Arabic and Portuguese.—
Mathew Scott,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
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The best way to avoid the tariffs, Trump has told businesses, is to make goods inside the U.S. EU officials had suggested sector-specific zero-for-zero tariffs with the U.S., such as in industrial goods and autos, but Trump rejected the idea.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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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These EOs accordingly discourage the targeted law firms from challenging unlawful government action and representing clients disfavored by Trump.—
James Speyer,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2025
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Over time, the precedent of the swift removal of people—with limited if any judicial intervention—can be deployed more broadly to target immigrants, even lawful ones, espousing views disfavored by the administration.—
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar,
Foreign Affairs,
18 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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Progressives are criticizing tariffs for boosting prices and triggering international chaos.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
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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