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The small acts of resistance that you quantified stuck out to me.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2026

At one point he stuck out his hand to pretend he held the distant band shell in his cupped palm.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

“My Years with General Motors” by Alfred P. Sloan has a range of important lessons for the corporate world but one chapter stuck out in particular, “The Copper-Cooled Engine.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

In both those new photos and earlier tranches, one persistent, nagging detail stuck out to me.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

He stuck out his lower lip petulantly, just like Akira might, then idly scratched at where his ear had once been.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata



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