brutal
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In a brutal little detail, he contrasts Danny’s bikini groupies with the women in Rick’s crowd, who clomp toward him with toilet paper stuck to their shoes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
India is already enduring a brutal heat wave, and the forecast points to below-average rainfall in the coming monsoon.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
The humanoid-robot sector has some of the same ingredients: government backing, a dense supplier base, brutal domestic competition, large factories willing to experiment and companies racing to cut costs.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
For investors, the challenge is separating the companies building sustainable national brands from those simply pushing risk onto franchisees in an increasingly brutal price war.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
This time, I was stumping for Hillary Clinton, Barack’s opponent in the brutal 2008 primary who’d gone on to become his loyal and effective secretary of state.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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