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Despite the animosity between the two franchises, one star player managed to give his competitor their flowers.—
Kevin McCormick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 July 2025 -
Daniels, a leader of the activist group known as The Heights Movement, said the animosity some feel toward Evendale goes beyond the old incorporation fight.—
Dan Horn,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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For years, shared antagonism toward the U.S. has been pushing China, Russia, and Iran together.—
Leon Aron,
The Atlantic,
29 June 2025
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Given the humiliation Israel has already imposed, and the threat of regime-toppling force, Tehran may dial back its antagonism.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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In addition, citizenship can be revoked if an individual commits certain actions, including treason, serving in a foreign military engaged in hostilities against the U.S., or renouncing citizenship.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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Advertisement Yet Indo-Pak relations haven’t always been defined by hostility alone.—
Sam Dalrymple,
Time,
14 July 2025
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Global banks aren’t necessarily acting out of malice.—
Wale Ayeni,
semafor.com,
14 July 2025
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Beneath the inevitable finger-pointing and politicizing, there is often a genuine, even desperate, human impulse to find fault not out of malice, but out of mourning and a desire to find solutions.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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And in spite of the inner change faith induces, converts rarely speak of it as a conscious decision but as a potent fact that intervenes, imposes, and persuades.—
Terry Nguyen
July 23,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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Here’s why employers in 2025 are hiring you because of your side hustle, not in spite of it.—
Andrew Fennell,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Aster’s subject is nothing less than the void of meaning—the morass of misinformation and irreconcilable political rancor—into which America has tumbled since the pandemic.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
18 July 2025
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Etty Lau Farrell has danced onstage at many Jane’s Addiction shows over the years, causing rancor within the band.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
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Their dynamic seems born not of enmity but something almost more collaborative.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
29 June 2025
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This is a big call, as anti-U.S. enmity may have passed.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
4 June 2025
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The filmmakers know exactly how to leverage Hawkins’s warm, naturalistic screen presence, using her offbeat sweetness to keep the audience guessing as to her character’s exact level of malevolence.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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In the room with us in Valencia, the dolls eyes’ are hypnotic, carrying a trace of malevolence.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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