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Recent Examples of set pieceBesides, filling this movie with anything more — star cameos or broad comedy set pieces — would be a mistake.—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2025 Another set piece is Griffin’s dad telling the story of his first true love.—Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025 Read: The missing piece of the Bob Marley biopic
The film’s most jaw-dropping set piece is also perhaps its most timeline-flouting.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025 Given Biden’s years as a top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his eight years as Vice President and four as a globe-trotting President, the legacy-building set piece makes sense and the easiest to sell to a nation that is not exactly conversant in international affairs.—Philip Elliott, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for set piece
When the 1,500-square-foot shop opens on Friday, it will be wrapped in denim, showcasing the brand’s playful and distinctive decor, which is a signature of Alice + Olivia.
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Lisa Lockwood,
WWD,
17 Jan. 2025
More is more for a maximalist look, so leave the single statement plant to the minimalists and Swedish death cleaners and choose several of the following plants to elevate your decor.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
Behind the scenes, though, officials are starting to confront the reality that the LAPD buildup won’t happen anytime soon — while acknowledging that the country’s third-largest police department may even continue to shrink.
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Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Investigators said detectives compared the video footage from both scenes, as well as information previously gathered on Thompson, to name her one of the suspects in the armed robbery.
Against that backdrop, there is hope that the presence of so much dry powder will signal an upturn in investment this year.
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Trevor Clawson,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Compound that with lower prestige and set it against a backdrop of general decline in primary care, which is increasingly being shifted over to physician assistants and nurses.
While on the Rust set in October 2021, Alec Baldwin allegedly fired a prop gun loaded with a live bullet, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
Baldwin was accused of involuntary manslaughter after a prop gun was discharged on the New Mexico set of the western in the fall of 2021, killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.
His drop has turned into a days-long news story, in part because the Ravens now have three tight ends each with one year left on their contracts: Jackson’s security blanket, Andrews; Isaiah Likely, a quickly ascending pass catcher; and perhaps the best blocking tight end of the trio, Charlie Kolar.
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Sam Cohn,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2025
Following the press conference, the benchmark CSI 300 index climbed over 1.8%, narrowing the index’s drop this year to around 2.7%, according to LSEG data.
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