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Sweet Tea reluctantly indulges Heavenly’s presence and sits down with her for a one-on-one conversation off to the side.
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Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025
Pacoima Beautiful, a clean air advocacy organization in the mostly Latino, low-income northeast San Fernando Valley, reportedly stopped accepting SoCalGas donations after its leaders said the group was reluctantly doing the company’s bidding.
—Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
How many years was this massive project being discussed out of view, a policy that prevented, seemingly for years, open information sharing before it was reluctantly revealed in 2024?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Apple has thus far seemed very cool on the platform and seemed to u-turn on its adoption reluctantly.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025
Pacoima Beautiful, a clean air advocacy organization in the mostly Latino, low-income northeast San Fernando Valley, reportedly stopped accepting SoCalGas donations after its leaders said the group was reluctantly doing the company’s bidding.
—Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
How many years was this massive project being discussed out of view, a policy that prevented, seemingly for years, open information sharing before it was reluctantly revealed in 2024?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Apple has thus far seemed very cool on the platform and seemed to u-turn on its adoption reluctantly.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Reluctantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reluctantly. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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