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Adjective
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From Dickinson to Colton Dach, who was making his NHL debut, to Nolan Allan and much of the lineup, the Blackhawks weren’t timid.—
Scott Powers,
The Athletic,
3 Jan. 2025 -
Usually, a player who has been injured for that long will come in and be timid and not want to do anything too crazy.—
Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In many organizations, there is a silent understanding that more hours equate to high performance.—
Lieke ten Brummelhuis,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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The General Year: 1926 Runtime: 1h 15m Directors: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton Truly classic comedies can be hard to find on streaming services, so take this chance to watch an all-timer, one of the best silent movies ever made.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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With its focus on reducing inefficiencies, analysts wonder whether this administration will favor quicker clinical development and drug approvals.—
Juergen Eckhardt,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Isak’s silkiness is sublime, and check out his composure and clinical finish for his second goal against Wolves, above.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
4 Dec. 2024
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In the light of Rifkin’s diffident anguish, the heartfelt whimsy of these scenes plays like Allen’s own nostalgic reminiscence of his early, funny stuff—and of the way that his life used to be.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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That's shy of the monthly average for payroll gains of 180,000 in 2024 and 227,000 jobs added in November, pending any revisions.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Zoom in: In Colorado, Democrats hold all state constitutional offices, 43 of 65 seats in the House and 23 of 35 seats in the Senate, just shy of supermajorities in each chamber.—
Alayna Alvarez,
Axios,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Evidence for the antiquity of the country came in the early 1820s, when America’s first professional geologists found trilobites spilling out of the banks of the new Erie Canal.—
Caroline Winterer / Made by History,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
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That’s the same system that Mark Zuckerberg revealed last week for Meta, which is preparing to fire its third-party professional fact-checkers who are already straining against a flood of conspiracy theories.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Often, a less qualified candidate who displays high energy and eagerness can outshine a more qualified individual who appears disinterested and uncommunicative.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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If the answer is not the same as your needs, then reevaluate your VC’s counsel with that in mind and do not blindly accept their advice as if this was a conversation with an objective, disinterested advisor.—
Jothy Rosenberg,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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With bounty hunters hot on her trail, Sara hires a taciturn stranger named Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) to guide them to safety, which proves elusive in a region where the Army, Native Americans, Mormon militiamen and other settlers are locked in a battle for control.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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It could even be discerned in the taciturn response from President Biden after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 descended into chaos, said Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of political history at Princeton.—
Adam Nagourney,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Clubbish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clubbish. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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