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Although Russia has struggled to embrace startup culture, the big contractors have a stranglehold on the supply process; corruption is endemic, and the military know who to buy from.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025 -
The council has been target of calls for a reconfiguration following its lack of action on the corruption allegations, dissatisfaction with many of its decisions and the escalating gang violence.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.—
Natalie Kinkade,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2024
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Clark, instead, memorializes Black Twitter, hoping to prevent further perversion of Black innovation, Black language, culture and style.—
J Wortham,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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Originally, there was a title sequence that had nothing to do with John Doe and his fingertips or any of his composition book perversions.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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Ricardo Reyes Mata, a catholic priest and Dallas resident, was arrested by Garland police Monday on two felony counts of indecency with a child, police said in a release.—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American-Statesman,
7 May 2024
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These economies are much more vulnerable to existential economic and environmental shocks and downward spirals of community decay than urban economies, which have built up more diversified tradable income sources over time.—
Tim Freeman,
The Conversation,
13 Jan. 2025
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Summary Dental fillings help maintain the structure and function of natural teeth damaged by tooth decay.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
10 Jan. 2025
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Bailey looked out at the landscape again, thinking about El Naga’s description, the squalor of the NCI, the fractures between the United States and the Middle East.—
Sushrut Jangi,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Dec. 2014
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Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2024
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And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2022
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A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions.—
Orange County Register,
Orange County Register,
1 Apr. 2017
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Internet tabloids made Ferrell into an avatar of the depravity of millennial excess in gentrifying Brooklyn.—
Amanda Hess,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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Kendrick Lamar and Drake made a show out of accusing one another of depravity.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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