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For most people, at most companies, that means, at minimum, trying not to make an ass of yourself in public.
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Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
But many successful activists are unpleasant human beings—frequently, in fact, royal pains in the ass.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
This guy has a chance, and he's been working his ass off.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2024
When millennial women got informed that the proper pant silhouette of the twenty-tens, the high waist—which truncated the torso, elongated the leg, and made of every ass a pear—was on the way out, with low-rise making its incursion again, there was a lot of real anger.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
But many successful activists are unpleasant human beings—frequently, in fact, royal pains in the ass.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
This guy has a chance, and he's been working his ass off.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2024
When millennial women got informed that the proper pant silhouette of the twenty-tens, the high waist—which truncated the torso, elongated the leg, and made of every ass a pear—was on the way out, with low-rise making its incursion again, there was a lot of real anger.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Ass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ass. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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