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Adjective
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Beauty lovers can’t get enough of all the gorgeous shades (including one worn by Angelina Jolie in the ’90s), and they’re equally obsessed with all of the scandalous photos we’ve been graced with.—
Kleigh Balugo,
StyleCaster,
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Why is Trump so obsessed with California water policy, especially an endangered fish called the delta smelt?—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Rebekah is so fixated on Tyler that her daughter simply fades into the background.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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Cross My Heart, out Jan. 14, follows Rosie, a heart transplant recipient, who becomes fixated on her donor’s husband.—
Megan Collins,
People.com,
12 Jan. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration set off a tumultuous day at O’Hare International Airport as frantic relatives, hundreds of protesters and volunteer lawyers gathered there.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Jan. 2025
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At the Damascus airport, Mazen made a few last frantic calls.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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If nothing else, the film takes it on faith that the old storybook routines no longer apply, which helps explain why ‘Taxi Driver’ — with its frenzied masculine violence and febrile vision of the city as a landscape of fear and desire — hangs over this movie so heavily.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Elsewhere, Blumberg commissioned piano-string improvisations from Sophie Agnel, a synth-pop beat from Vince Clarke, and frenzied bebop jazz, played live on set by drummer Antonin Gerbal, double bassist Joel Grip, saxophonist Pierre Borel, and pianist Simon Sieger.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Social media users were left hysterical by the Frenchie's dramatic reaction and related to the loud cries.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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One reporter said the fight should be called off, that Clay was hysterical and was endangering himself.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Thirty minutes later, the Sun reported, medics still had not tended to a distraught woman half-buried by the shattered stands, groaning, with both legs apparently broken.—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 2025
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Viel found a distraught Pasadena woman who saw flames approaching a coop that housed pet chickens and ducks behind her home on Altadena Drive.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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There were some generational differences in regard to the reasons driving irrational purchases.—
Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
WWD,
27 Jan. 2025
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The author suggests that large crowds can be made irrational, often due to charismatic leadership, and shows how most people choose to go with the grain. Group decisions can also reduce a sense of personal accountability as people find solidarity in what the masses want.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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