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Verb
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In the movie, Yetnikoff phones up MTV CEO Bob Pittman and starts screaming at him.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2026 -
Our one peek into it comes when Darren phones Evy to pressure her to ditch her mom and come to a party.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That includes describing specific campaign messages suitable for advertising or attacking opponents, sometimes highlighted in a literal red box.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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That’s the crowd advertisers in news programming see as most likely to heed marketing messages and product pitches.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
1 May 2026
Verb
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There’s a great exchange between Bishop and Kidd in the first episode, in which Bishop calls Kidd out on counting cards and says something about luck.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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Tucked away in the more than 500 pages of city budget expenditures, the mayor calls for creating a new revenue stream by allowing people who own a second home to rent it out on a short-term basis, something that is currently prohibited.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Should both signal paths somehow fail the system is packaged with Mercedes rear-wheel steer option, which dials in up to 10 degrees of rear wheel steering input, and a third input will kick in to control the rear-wheel steering to enable the driver to pull over slowly.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
2 Apr. 2026
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From there, the series dials back to 1988 to the tiny seaport town of Grimsby, several hours north of London.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Cold calls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20calls. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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