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Recent Examples of elementally Mitski is at her best in this album’s more elementally human moments. —
Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
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Sports franchises everywhere can be tacky, rapacious, incompetent, extortionate, and otherwise exploitative, but only because their customers, the fans, are essentially captives.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
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John Lennon basically saw a poster for a circus event with Henry the Horse, so that essentially became the lyrics to that song.— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
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While state lawmakers have acknowledged this bottleneck by passing a series of workarounds and exemptions, the California Environmental Quality Act remains fundamentally misaligned with the goals of increasing housing supply and leaves the door open to lawsuits against new projects.— Eliza Terziev, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
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Last week, Spanberger signed legislation entering Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), an initiative that aims to fundamentally change the way the United States elects presidents without amending the Constitution.— Jason Willick, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2026
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That last bit is arguably the most frustrating, given that Saturday nights are basically the most popular time to go for a cruise.— Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 16 Apr. 2026
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (basically, the mortgage police) states that shopping at least three mortgage lenders can save borrowers an average $100 a month in mortgage interest or more than $3,000 in upfront fees.— Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
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Here, death is inherently the tragedy that sets the story in motion.— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
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Berkshire does not disclose which manager is responsible for individual stock picks, making any attribution inherently speculative.— Yun Li, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
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But, again, this would be intrinsically changing the character of Archbald Borough.— Robert Costa, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
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Thus this is intrinsically a story of class differences, involving labor unions and labor relations in general.— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
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“Elementally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/elementally. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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