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His brother Jun-ho is still searching for the island and is unaware there’s a traitor in his group.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025 -
Young-il’s brother is still searching for the island — but a traitor on the boat is preventing the detective from reaching the game site.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Clarkson and River have become frequent collaborators over the years.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
21 July 2025
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You First collaborators — who got engaged in December 2024 — wrapped their arms around each other in one couple shot and shared a smooch in another.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
20 July 2025
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In front of its 11th consecutive sellout crowd of 18,064, the expansion team shot 33.8% from the field.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
15 July 2025
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Blue and red shirts, chants in multiple languages, and a sellout crowd lent the match an atmosphere worthy of Europe's biggest stages.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
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Some have likened Barrett to the late Justice David Souter, who was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush and later branded a turncoat.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
25 June 2025
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In the pantheon of Bond villains, turncoats from MI6 have often served as some of the best baddies.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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Suddenly, Lian was no longer Wenyu’s main conspirator; her boyfriend was more daring.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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The indictment claims the scheme allegedly generated more than $5 million in illicit earnings and hundreds of thousands in fees for the U.S. conspirators.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
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Campbell was branded ‘Judas’ and is still not forgiven in Spurs circles.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Parents of teens who’d died by suicide sued Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest, alleging the music inspired their children’s deaths.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
10 July 2025
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Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.—
Ed Burmila,
The New Republic,
15 June 2022
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Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2019
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“Subverter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subverter. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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