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This seems to back the trend of the ever larger popularity of non-English language shows just a few years back with the streamer boom.
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John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
Stanford seemed prepared to move forward with Taylor in 2025 until ESPN’s report last week detailed investigations into Taylor’s conduct in 2023 — before his first season as coach — and then again in 2024.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Editorial: Springfield doesn’t seem to know the scope of its ‘Tier 2’ pension problem.
—Ted Dabrowski, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Even this number seems aspirational should Vulcan not fly its initial mission before this summer.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 Mar. 2025
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John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
Stanford seemed prepared to move forward with Taylor in 2025 until ESPN’s report last week detailed investigations into Taylor’s conduct in 2023 — before his first season as coach — and then again in 2024.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Editorial: Springfield doesn’t seem to know the scope of its ‘Tier 2’ pension problem.
—Ted Dabrowski, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Even this number seems aspirational should Vulcan not fly its initial mission before this summer.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seem
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Musk maintains that the company’s future remains bright A growing number of consumers who bought Tesla vehicles before Musk took over DOGE have been looking to sell or trade them in, while others have slapped on bumper stickers seeking to distance themselves from him.—
Michael Liedtke,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2025
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President Donald Trump's continued criticism of Germany’s failure to pay its defense bills looks to have pushed one of Europe's wealthiest nations into action.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Many individuals feel too stressed or busy will avoid treating themselves, according to a study by Cornell SC Johnson College of Business published in the Journal of Consumer Research.—
Kate Wieczorek,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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While there is a general sense of fidelity to the plot, the final product feels wildly different from the original because the production is played as a broad comedy.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Researchers were sounding the alarm about this in the 2010s when our digital technology was less advanced and there were fewer digital traces to enrich the datasets.—
Abigail Dubiniecki,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The phrases might sound askew at first, and don’t always track precisely.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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Since then a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the dismantling of the agency, but the memo appears to indicate that the administration has plans to continue its mission of drastically cutting USAID and fully folding it into the State Department.—
Vittoria Elliott,
WIRED,
20 Mar. 2025
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Her writing has appeared in Vogue, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, W, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, WSJ, and System among others.—
Laia Garcia-Furtado,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Seem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seem. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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