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But, under the First Amendment, do these students have a right to exercise their personal views in a public forum, even if ill-advisedly, just as Kirk’s followers have a right to publicly mourn him?

From Slate Sep. 17, 2025

Narrator Bronson Pinchot takes us into the depressed and unraveling mind of Dale, a recently disgraced and divorced professor who ill-advisedly decides to spend his sabbatical back home in Elm Haven.

From Seattle Times Oct. 7, 2022

The earth recovers, as does the moon; and the lizard comes back as a man who in time also ill-advisedly eats the moon.

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2022

The Dodgers blew a one-run lead in the fifth when Roberts ill-advisedly brought in pitcher Ryan Madsen.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2020

I’d ill-advisedly bought new white sneakers to wear on the trip, and within a day, after all the pushing we did, they’d turned reddish brown, stained with the cinnamon-hued dust of Nairobi.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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