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Schwarzenegger made a pilgrimage to Washington to cadge more money from the government, but came home empty-handed.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2025 -
This started with some truly baroque partisan speculation; on Dec. 11, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) cadged himself some airtime on Fox News by claiming that his home state was under attack from Iran.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Rachel Morin's 'bum' killer mooched off locals before murdering mom of five, lawyer says.—
FOXNews.com,
FOXNews.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Suleman also opened up about her financial insecurity in the early 2010s and how the media painted her to be mooching off the government.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
8 Mar. 2025
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When all 16 of her campers and her co-counselors were safely accounted for at the pavilion, Ainslie heard campers from another cabin — one that housed some of the camp’s youngest children — begging for help.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
12 July 2025
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Read on for our roundup of gallery wall ideas in living rooms, bedrooms, and entryways to turn an empty wall begging for a makeover into a memorable design statement.—
Maria Sabella,
Architectural Digest,
11 July 2025
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Later outside Al-Aqsa Hospital, men prayed over shrouded bodies and, in a scene now familiar, if no less heartbreaking after 20 months of war, one of them picked up a tiny white bundle to carry the child to the cemetery.—
Aurora Almendral,
NBC news,
10 July 2025
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The unsettling noise was followed by a tense hour in the cabin, with many passengers crying, praying or showing signs of distress.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
10 July 2025
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While the sponging industry has diminished over the years (largely because most modern-day consumers use artificial versions for dish scrubbing and housecleaning), there’s still a considerable market for the natural ones, especially in Europe.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
2 July 2025
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Use a damp soft brush, cloth, or sponge to scrub the surface, removing stains without scratching the glass.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
23 June 2025
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As Almeyda makes her journey towards this elusive mecca, both the idea of Palmares and Almeyda’s journey toward it feel like hallucinatory visions: Vibrantly conjured, indeed mythic in intention and impact.—
Irenosen Okojie
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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That story isn’t about the nurse so much as the patients who saw their excruciating pain systematically ignored, and Burton conveys them as a kind of Greek chorus, individual voices cycling in and out to conjure a sense of collective experience.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 July 2025
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But the problem persisted enough that, three years later, the head of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives implored the administration’s then-commissioner, Martin O’Malley, to institute further guardrails.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
3 July 2025
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Travis County Judge Andy Brown implored the community to get vaccinated.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Kent called 911 a second time to inform the police that his son was mentally ill and beseeched them to use less-than-lethal weapons in apprehending him.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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The quiet that followed Heiss’s departure had an almost beseeching quality, like a cat rubbing against Prima’s calves.—
Lillian Fishman,
New Yorker,
4 May 2025
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“Bludge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bludge. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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