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Expensive Air continues in this shorter, punchier vein, but with a darker undertow.
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Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 July 2024
This financial burden underscores the precarious state of the nation’s fiscal health, and acts as a relentless undertow, pulling resources away from national priorities and threatening to drown future economic stability.
—Will Mattern, Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2024
Democratic lawmakers are unnerved about the 81-year-old president’s performance, the campaign strategy, Biden’s trailing poll numbers against Trump in battleground states and the down-ballot undertow Democrats may experience by November.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 9 July 2024
Their antics may trap you in a cosmic undertow, wherein multiple pressing tasks threaten to drown you.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
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Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 July 2024
This financial burden underscores the precarious state of the nation’s fiscal health, and acts as a relentless undertow, pulling resources away from national priorities and threatening to drown future economic stability.
—Will Mattern, Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2024
Democratic lawmakers are unnerved about the 81-year-old president’s performance, the campaign strategy, Biden’s trailing poll numbers against Trump in battleground states and the down-ballot undertow Democrats may experience by November.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 9 July 2024
Their antics may trap you in a cosmic undertow, wherein multiple pressing tasks threaten to drown you.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
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“Undertow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertow. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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