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"The next few games are about him, I'm not going to beat around the bush," Coady said.

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“What more do I need? That was a lot of high-level officials that we needed to confirm to us that he’s really gone. There was no way to beat around the bush,” Maryam Kamalmaz said.

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After meeting President Joe Biden, he said: “We shouldn’t beat around the bush: support from the United States is indispensable for the question of whether Ukraine will be in a position to defend itself.”

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I’ve willingly stuck it out through every movie in the horror series, so there’s no use beating around the bush: “Saw” is my kind of trash.

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“There wasn’t a lot of beating around the bush with Boch, he would kind of just tell you like it is,” Crawford said.

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