1
as in to pooh
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2
as in to quarrel (with)
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But health insurers have protested, arguing the policy is akin to cutting seniors' health benefits.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
13 Jan. 2025 -
The San Diego Rodeo was held for the first time at Petco Park last January — no rodeo had been held in the city since the 1980s before then — and it was protested by animal-rights advocates who called it cruel and abusive.—
Gary Warth,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Jan. 2025
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Many residents at the town hall complained about feeling unsafe at their local Giant or Weis supermarkets, seeing panhandlers, loitering and graffiti in and around these areas.—
Racquel Bazos,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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Some of the agency’s top Middle East diplomats complained in private that they were sidelined by Biden’s National Security Council.—
Brett Murphy,
ProPublica,
15 Jan. 2025
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After the Iron Curtain fell, tennis exploded in the former communist countries, where tennis had long been scorned as a pursuit of the bourgeoisie.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Whoever is chosen to replace Trudeau as leader of the Liberals faces a vicious uphill battle to win back voters feeling scorned by the outgoing government.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Jan. 2025
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Greens, blues, and reds remain masculine while rejecting the conventions of more conservative styles.—
Ian Malone,
Vogue,
18 Jan. 2025
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While the Obama administration rejected Cheney’s outsized role for itself, Joe Biden still became a close adviser and helped achieve administration goals.—
Roy Brownell,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Jan. 2025
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The character is sympathetic — Firth is hard to dislike — but with an edge of peskiness.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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Those who dislike her are jealous, those who disagree with her are evil, and those who try to stop her are vanquished—righteously.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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These forms of injunction have been highly disfavored by the U.S. Supreme Court, which in fact has warned the lower federal courts about entering such injunctions.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Injunctions are equitable in nature, and equity does not favor those who have slept on their rights national preliminary injunctions that are entered in the 11th hour before legislation goes into effect are particularly disfavored.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
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However, many criticized Jones for fighting the aging Miocic and not pivoting to fight Aspinall, a younger and seemingly more dangerous fighter who holds the interim title.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Obama, in turn, has criticized Trump, particularly on issues of democracy and policy.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Object (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/object%20%28to%29. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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