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Noun
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Williams, of course, worked at NBC for nearly three decades, including an 11-year run at NBC Nightly News that ended 2015 after exaggerations and falsehoods were found in some of his reporting, including reports from Iraq, and from New Orleans after it had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.—
Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
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The lurch from declaring fears about Iran to be mere media exaggerations to invoking imminent threat, from demanding the Nobel Peace Prize to luxuriating in lethality, is the essence of the autocrat’s monopoly on unpredictability.— Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Larger telescopes allow magnifications of 150x or more.— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026
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And your camera attached to a small telescope with magnifications between 20-30 would give you stunning photos.— Dean Regas, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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As members of Gen X and Millennials became parents, the general trend of having more money and time for children continued, resulting in elaborations of the concept of helicopter parenting.— Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
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“Superlatives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/superlatives. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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