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Here are five takeaways from the Bruins’ latest victory:
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Foster wasn’t the only coach who could preen.
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Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Which brings us to the most galling mystery of the season: How on earth does this preening man-child get engaged?
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024
As Henry, Law is a galactic and mercurial presence — alternately preening and embittered and needy and contemptuous but always very loudly so.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 June 2024
The tensions are still there, however, sparked by Season 1’s Sergio, now out of jail and a preening Rio city councilor.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
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Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Which brings us to the most galling mystery of the season: How on earth does this preening man-child get engaged?
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024
As Henry, Law is a galactic and mercurial presence — alternately preening and embittered and needy and contemptuous but always very loudly so.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 June 2024
The tensions are still there, however, sparked by Season 1’s Sergio, now out of jail and a preening Rio city councilor.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
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In it, Dever’s Belle is a successful and beloved advocate for natural and alternative medicine, gloating that her book was better reviewed than that of her fellow wellness influencer Milla, played by Fear the Walking Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
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In text messages included in the original Complaint, Wayfarer’s publicist Jennifer Abel and Baldoni’s PR crisis consultant Melissa Nathan, were gloating and gleeful over the success of their campaign to destroy Lively’s career.Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
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Handlers at the 2024 National Dog Show Presented by Purina spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about getting different breeds ready for the big event and the amount of primping required.Marina Watts, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Find it on Amazon Bring the Spa Home With This Facial Steamer Turn your bathroom into a spa with this facial steamer kit that comes with eight tools to primp and prod the skin, just like a professional.Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Messi, at 35, led his country to glory against France, winning soccer’s ultimate prize in a pulsating match that finished 3-3 after extra time and had to be settled by a nerve-wracking penalty shootout.Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2022
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If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity.Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
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The real problem, though, was that my college years fell in the middle of a triumphalist era, with the Soviet Union smoldering on the ash heap and America exulting in its victory over history.Michael Moynihan, airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024
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Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot, as elements of the Left’s hard core constituencies exult in their law-breaking, vandalize and destroy property and bully those who disagree with them.Jeff Robbins, Boston Herald, 10 June 2024
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“Preen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preen. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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