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The cunning, determined, rhetorically skillful Odysseus, long absent from his kingdom after a devastating war, becomes the devilishly clever Satan, cast down from his original home after the angelic civil war in heaven.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Because of budget trims, you were tasked with having to slim the cast down and scale back screen time for some veteran cast members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

If these questions give off a strong smell of the seminar room, do not be cast down: There is plenty of fun, and truly adorable stuff, to be consumed.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

One more day to cast down the mighty, lift up the lowly and send the rich away.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023

Many were cast down in ruin, but many more replaced them, and Orcs sprang up them like apes in the dark forests of the South.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien


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