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Assuming the roster gets back to full health, the givens ahead of Pelle in the rotation would be Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo, Kel’el Ware, Andrew Wiggins and, perhaps, Davion Mitchell.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025 -
There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2024
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To your point, these midlife issues aren’t specific to high-class suburbia, but the whole premise of this show is built around the lives of wealthy people, even though there are a few characters from a lower socio-economic background.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
30 May 2025
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Torre felt that too many sports podcasts were built on the same premise: tackle the day’s news, interview some big names, churn out takes of varying temperatures.—
Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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But the administration is prepared to dismantle the presumption of citizenship that has been a literal birthright for 125 years.—
James Thomas Snyder,
Mercury News,
24 May 2025
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Finally, New York has a powerful presumption for protecting the vulnerable from suicide.—
Charles Camosy,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2025
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At a Vanity Fair party, Diddy admonished Nash because Cassie’s hair was not in keeping with his dictum.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
28 May 2025
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Those organizing in opposition to pipelines in South Dakota, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Rhode Island carry the dictum on their lips.—
Elizabeth Rush,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2025
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Also called Euclid’s fifth postulate, this rule tells us the following: Suppose you’re given a line.—
Rachel Crowell,
Scientific American,
6 Dec. 2023
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In the 1800s, Bertrand’s postulate showed that for any n>3, there is always a prime number between n and 2n.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Nov. 2023
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But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Shoigu, who was replaced as defense minister in 2024 after holding the position for 12 years, cited amendments made to Russia's nuclear doctrine in November.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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Courts are also increasingly scrutinizing environmental claims—down to the assumptions behind individual offsets.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Mass incarceration, which swept the country in the late twentieth century, rested on the assumption that a person spoiling for a fight with another person was weighing costs: that the difference between ten years and twenty-five would matter.—
Malcolm Gladwell,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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And so, with gold on a steep upward trajectory: The following chart reflects my thinking, based on these axioms: Tension is going to increase dramatically—even from current levels.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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But the soul of the Scorpion was not easily vanquished, proving the axiom that driving a slow car fast is better than driving a fast car slow.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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