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As an 18-year-old, Bedard was pilloried for having a minus-44 rating.—
Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
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The Wizard is getting away with his bad deeds; Elphaba is unjustly pilloried; Glinda, Elphaba’s try-hard, mega-popular former roommate, has joined with the Wizard while quietly chafing against the unfairness of Elphaba’s exile.—
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Trump has also repeatedly lashed out over the state’s incarceration of Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted of state felonies related to her attempts to prove discredited election conspiracies shared by the president.—
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According to Augustinus Bader, apply to brows and lashes morning and night.—
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Koch was a real-life Nazi war criminal, played here by Krieps, whose sick specialties include flaying the skin off of Jewish people and making objects out of it like lampshades.—
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This led to the investigation of Gein’s farm that unearthed his atrocities, including Worden’s body being decapitated, flayed, and hung in his shed.—
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Chipotle and Cava both reported weaker sales this fall, blaming a slowdown among younger diners who are packing lunches instead.—
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The hurricane has been blamed for 77 deaths, according to the Pan American Health Organization.—
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Nawat Itsaragrisil, president of Miss Grand International (MGI), was seen scolding Fatima Bosch, a 25-year-old contestant from Mexico, ahead of the 74th Miss Universe competition being held in Bangkok later this month.—
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No doubt many grandmothers will want to scold us, but the truth is, soap isn't going to destroy your cast iron pans.—
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In a blistering memo circulated around the agency before he was laid off in late summer, Frantz upbraided political leaders.—
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The current episode is no less dramatic than previous ones that saw Zelenskiy upbraided by Vance and Trump in an Oval Office meeting.—
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On Earth, tectonic faulting in the seafloor enables water to plunge kilometers down into the rock, and as fresh faults are opened up by shifting tectonic plates, new rock is exposed, maintaining the nutrient supply released into the ocean through hydrothermal vents.—
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Nineteen students and two teachers were killed, and investigations have faulted the police response and suggested that a 77-minute delay in police mounting a counterassault could have contributed to the carnage.—
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And other than a recession, which generally keelhauls buyback plans, don’t expect companies to ease off their repurchases.—
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The threat posed by the AT&T-Time Warner merger is all the greater today because of the Trump administration’s initiative in keelhauling network neutrality at the Federal Communications Commission.—
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“Gibbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibbet. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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