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Gaza showed how power brokers from the White House on down seem eager for pretexts to punish dissent in ways that create a chilling effect, and that the hottest rhetoric from activists can be exactly that pretext.—
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
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Hamas says that Israel is creating pretexts to avoid honoring the agreement.— Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2025
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Freed from all the entanglements that come with having to launch a ground invasion, air war can overfly not just morality and law but arguments, rationales, the calibration of risks to rewards and of suffering to satisfaction.— Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
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Investors look for reasons to take profits, even though the rationales may have nothing to do with the market action.— Michael Hiltzik, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
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The 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, expands on a 2016 law, signed by President Barack Obama, that permits victims and descendants of victims of the Holocaust to lay legal claim to works of art looted by the Nazis or sold to the Nazis under false pretenses.— Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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While some of the women who came here willingly embraced ISIS ideology and passed it on to their children, many others say they were trafficked or lured to the region through ignorance or under false pretenses.— Jane Arraf, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
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Observers have put forth several explanations for her approach.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Researchers who study octopus behavior offered their own explanations for what drives this kind of escape.— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026
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Grove said the agency’s justifications for consolidating offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, don’t make sense.— Karl Hille, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
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The numbers and justifications don’t add up.— Kristen Monsell, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
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If that timeline holds, closing arguments would take place on May 5, and a sentencing verdict could come that same day.— Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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The health and environmental arguments for these political positions have been argued to death, but Barrett says that the economic consequences of dirty air are often overlooked.— Meg Tanaka, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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In addition to the restricted access to the villages, Adraee warned against moving south of another 21 villages in the area for safety reasons.— Will Clark, NBC news, 20 Apr. 2026
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Overall, the reasons for the decline are still debated.— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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By the time my story about him was published in the November 2023 issue of Vanity Fair, Aryeh Dodelson, and all of his guises, had disappeared from the face of the earth.— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 3 Apr. 2026
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In its many guises, idolatry has survived, despite regular and often cataclysmic proof of its dangers, for centuries and many people will consider a much-larger-than-life golden statue of a president to be perfectly splendid.— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
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